Who Will Listen To The Suffering Syrians?
The conflict has created chronic mental pain in a country with few mental health specialists.
by Deb Amos
Mar 23, 2017
3 minutes
Dr. Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, a Syrian psychiatrist, writes poetry that reflects his deep longing for a lost homeland.
"Poetry and art is another way to cope," he says, "we are all grieving in our own ways. The country is no longer the one that I left and it still haunts me in my dreams." (Click here to read one of his poems.)
He has turned his grief into an action plan. From the United States, where he's lived since he arrived for a medical residency in 2009, he's using his mental health expertise
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