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New Perspectives on the Syrian Refugee CrisisAbout:
R. Shareah Taleghani is Assistant Professor and Director of Middle East Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Syrian prison literature and human rights. She is also the co-editor with Ammiel Alcalay and co-translator with the New York Translation Collective of poet Faraj Bayraqdar’s Dove in Free Flight, forthcoming from Upset Press.