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Wendy Pearlman

Wendy Pearlman is professor of political science and the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where she specializes in the comparative politics of the Middle East.

“We Don’t Have the Luxury to Stop”—An Interview with Syrian Civil Society Activist Oula Ramadan
Syrian refugee women attend a workshop in the offices of the Syrian civil society organization Zenobia in Gaziantep, Turkey, 2017. Mary Turner/Panos Pictures/Redux
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“We Don’t Have the Luxury to Stop”—An Interview with Syrian Civil Society Activist Oula Ramadan

Observers often summarize the past ten years in Syria in numbers: more than 500,000 killed, 100,000 disappeared, half the population of 22 million displaced, hundreds of billions of dollars of property destroyed and 90 percent of the population currently living in poverty. These shocking figures lay
Oula Ramadan, Wendy Pearlman • 14 min read