Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 8:35 PM

Subject: We need accurate reporting.

Nov. 12,2004

The Producer,

"Main Street" Program,

CBC Radio, Halifax.

Dear Sir/Madam:

I am writing to express my strong objection to your reporter's description of my birthplace, on the CBC Main Street Program today, as " a village in the disputed territories."

I was interviewed this afternoon by your reporter, Mahira Lashman, at The Islamic Centre on Kearney Lake Road in Halifax. I was asked as to my birthplace, and I told your reporter that I was born in the village of Beit Nuba in Palestine. There is nothing disputed about the Palestinian village of Beit Nuba, where I was born, except perhaps in the Israeli colonial lexicon, but certainly not according to international law or historic record.

Finally, I would like a public correction of this erroneous statement.

Thank you for your consideration.

Yours sincerely,

Ismail Zayid, MD.