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Gender Rules in the Middle East – Men and Women in Northern Iraq
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Gender Rules in the Middle East – Men and Women in Northern Iraq

Audio, Iraq

Gender Rules in the Middle East – Men and Women in Northern Iraq

Hannah and Colleen share their experiences of the roles and rules around what it means to be a man or a woman (or boy or girl) in Kurdish culture. Expectations and limitations for both men and women are a bit different than our experiences in the United States and anyone thinking to visit would do [...]

Staff2020-11-04T15:04:59-05:00June 23rd, 2020|Categories: Audio, Iraq|Tags: boy, Culture, Daily Life, expectations, gender, gender roles, girl, Iraq, Kurdistan, men, podcast, rules, women|

Read at Your Own Risk – “Once We Were Strangers” Book Review
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Read at Your Own Risk – “Once We Were Strangers” Book Review

Home Office, Nashville

Read at Your Own Risk – “Once We Were Strangers” Book Review

I sat down to read this book because I was looking for something I could hand a potential volunteer to help them learn, grow, and shift expectations. I expected a neatly packaged story of helping a refugee to success, and I (in my pride) was prepared to look down my nose at him for his [...]

Staff2020-10-27T11:14:31-05:00May 28th, 2019|Categories: Home Office, Nashville|Tags: book review, books, Culture, expectations, reading, refugees, Syria|