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Syria

Alphabetic text on a beadlike stone form

Archaeology

Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed

Published Nov 21, 2024

Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries

Refugees

Tracks of their tears

Published Summer 2018

Alum and NPR reporter Sasha Ingber documents the refugee crisis through the music and culture of displaced people / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Coming home to Syria

Published Summer 2017

In excerpts from her new memoir, 'The Home That Was Our Country,' alum Alia Malek recounts her return to Syria in 2011—when the country began its spiral into civil war / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Public health

2 Syrian doctors receive BSPH scholarships

Published April 25, 2017

Awards were created in late 2016 in response to country's ongoing conflict, refugee crisis

COMMENTARY

An uphill battle in Russia meetings

Published April 12, 2017

Vali Nasr authors analysis of complex diplomatic dynamics in wake of Syria chemical attack / The Atlantic

Public health

Rethinking the refugee crisis

Published March 13, 2017

The Syrian crisis has shown us the need for major reform of humanitarian response, Center for Humanitarian Health's Paul Spiegel says / Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health