Education

Coming back home to Damascus

Juan Jarrah

 

After having been away from Syria for eight years without a single visit, my trip last July was a long anticipated opportunity to re-discover my homeland and reassess the reasons culminating to such a prolonged absence. It is often said that expatriates are lost between two worlds— incapable of establishing a proper home in either one.


Was Khalil Gibran a ‘terrorist?’
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Vivian Salama

With less than two weeks to go be-fore school bells around the Unit-ed States signal the start of the 2007-2008 school year, much attention will be focused on one particular school in Brooklyn, New York.