Dr. Yara Asi: How can we measure Gaza’s trauma?

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Dr. Yara Asi, author of How War Kills; The Overlooked Threats to our Health  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) and New York Times guest essay, is assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, where she studies physical and mental health in conflict-affected and fragile populations. A Palestinian born in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, Dr. Asi describes the many challenges researchers face when trying to measure not only the extent of Gaza’s trauma but why healing its traumatized population will require medical and humanitarian solutions as well as the development of policy based on sensitivity to the uniqueness of its culture, political history and geography.  (First heard on WPKN May 8, 2024.) 

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Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…

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Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.

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