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By Guest PostJune 29, 2013General, Healthamelia reese masterson, analysis, arabic, bashar al assad, bireh, civil war, damascus, data collection, health in conflict, homeland, homs, internship in lebanon, killed in syria, military checkpoints, northern lebanese town, ob gyn services, rafik hariri foundation, reproductive health issues, syria, syrian women, syrians, unfpa, united nations, ysph

“In Syria it is a fast death; here it is a slow death,” a woman lamented as she described her situation as a refugee in Lebanon escaping an escalating civil war in her homeland.

Each woman’s story was different, but they were all sad, grim. Another refugee had five children and a husband who is detained somewhere back home. “When a father is present you might be able to afford some of the children’s needs, but if he’s not, from whom do you seek help?” she asked. (more…)

Exhibit: She Was an Archaeologist, Arabist, Diplomat and Spy

By Guest PostSeptember 26, 2011Culturearabic, arabist, archaeologist, baghdad, Britain, diplomat, european arabist, gallery at the whitney, gertrude bell, gertrude bell in mesopotamia, Iraq, iraq museum, lawrence of arabia, middle east, oriental secretary of iraq, oxford, persian, robert myers, spy, syria, t e lawrence, throne of king faisal, whitney humanities center

Gertrude Bell, a colleague of T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia) and the diplomat who drew the borders of modern-day Iraq, is the focus of a new exhibition opening Monday, Sept. 26, in the Gallery at the Whitney, located within the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

The exhibit, titled “Gertrude Bell in Mesopotamia: Archaeologist, Arabist, Diplomat, Spy,” will be on view through Dec. 16. (more…)

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