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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Barbara’s move to Upstate New York coincided with a shift from academia and anthropology. Rebuilding an old house in a riverside abode evocative of eastern…