Wandering Adventure Party

"Decades after almost the entire #Syrian #Jewish community left the country, Henry Hamra of #Brooklyn, #NY, stands at the metal door of a small #synagogue in this ancient Syrian city, literally holding the keys to a possible return of Jewish citizens.Hamra was 15 years old when his family left #Damascus in the early 1990s after the #Assad regime lifted a ban on travel. Many of the Syrian #Jews were unable to sell their homes before they left. Some of the homes ended up occupied by other Syrians while the government took charge of the #synagogues and #schools.In December, just days before Hamra's visit to #Aleppo, the Syrian government licensed a Jewish heritage foundation he leads, transferring control of Jewish #religious properties from the government to the organization.The organization will also help restore private property appropriated when the Jewish community left to its Jewish owners."https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5674746/syria-jewish-syrians-jews

My late sisters final book has now been published in Arabic: Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights. Shareah sadly passed in 2023 however, this book remains her seminal work. It really humanizes the suffering of prisoners during the Assad regime. R. Shareah Taleghani was a tenured professor of Middle East Studies at Queens Collage, NYC. #HumanRights #Syria #Assad