Never Can I Write of Damascus

When Syria Became Our Home

By: Gabe Huck, Theresa Kubasak

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Paperback | 7 September 2016

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In 2005, teacher Theresa Kubasak and retired publisher Gabe Huck moved to Syria to aid some of the many Iraqis who found refuge there from the violence of US-occupied Iraq. They set up and ran a project to prepare young Iraqi refugees for admission to U.S. colleges. (Sixty of their graduates" won admission to colleges all around the United States.)Never Can I Write of Damascus is Theresa and Gabe's memoir of the lives they led in four Damascus neighborhoods, 2005-2012, describing the many rich relationships they built with Syrian, Iraqi, and Palestinian-refugee neighbors. The book's title is from a line by Syria's leading poet, Nizar Qabbani..

Never Can I Write of Damascus paints a uniquely intimate picture of daily life in the heritage-rich country of Syria in the period before and just after the 2011 eruption of unrest there. It gives readers sobering information about the heavy human toll, for Iraqis, of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The book contains stunning photos, charming hand-drawn maps, and other rich supplemental content.

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"Photographs and breakout texts from notable writers, poets, and students enrich the authors' own anecdotes and build layers of historical perspective . . . . As beautiful as it is provocative and urgent, Never Can I Write of Damascus is an enlightening travel memoir that packs a powerful moral punch." --Scott Neuffer, Foreword Reviews

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