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Jun. 1, 2007

In Pro Per

I didn't like the way the Syrian policeman was questioning me about my background, but it prepared me for coming home. By Eamon Kircher-Allen

By Eamon Kircher-Allen
     
      State of Emergency
      The plainclothes Syrian policeman arranged to meet me at the park next to my house in Damascus, after an exasperating series of phone calls from his office to my office. It was October 2005, and I had already been in Syria for nearly a year, first studying Arabic and then working for the United Nations coordina...

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