2011 | Tibetan Frontier Families New Edition and Thupten Choeling Monastery

2011 | Tibetan Frontier Families New Edition and Thupten Choeling Monastery

Nepal beckoned me with a demand for new editions of Tibetan Frontier Families and Soundings in Tibetan Civilization. In the intervening years, my 2001 book…

2009 – 2012 | Damascus – Teaching Media

2009 – 2012 | Damascus – Teaching Media

Teaching in an exchange program that brought college-aged Syrians and Americans together, I was invited to work with Syrian professionals at the Arab Institute for…

2007 | Fulbright in Algeria

2007 | Fulbright in Algeria

Eschewing the role of war correspondent after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, I moved to an almost forgotten corner of the globe. Algeria was…

1995 | RAWI: Establishing and fostering a network of Arab-American Writers

1995 | RAWI: Establishing and fostering a network of Arab-American Writers

The Arab writers and other artists Barbara had interviewed in her travels and assignments in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, joined Arab American authors…

1992 | Radio Journalism in the Middle East

1992 | Radio Journalism in the Middle East

Broadcasting from New York City with rich new materials from interviews in the Arab lands, radio journalism became an ideal medium for Barbara. Housed in…

1990-2003 | Reporting from the Arab Capitals

1990-2003 | Reporting from the Arab Capitals

Barbara’s assignments to Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait were circumscribed by a new series of wars, beginning with the Persian Gulf War. That began a…