I attended the “Syrian Trajectories from Damascus to Euroland: Trans Mediterranean Assemblages” event for my third IA reflection. The event took place on Friday, April 12 at 4:00 pm in Pomerene Hall 260. It fulfilled the Non-IA requirement.
The speaker was Dr. Leila Hudson, an anthropologist and historian from the University of Arizona. Dr. Hudson spoke to us about her research with a Syrian family had to flee the country. There were five sisters aged 40 t0 60 and their families. They were Pious Sunni muslims and lived in the Damascus suburbs. The first sister rushed her unmarried son to Egypt. The second moved in with her daughter in Jordan. The remaining three went to Tripoli, Lebanon and then to Turkey.