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![]() ![]() ![]() (Bono, Oprah, and Madonna are tagged "the gods of altruism.") Partly addressed to a blocked Lebanese writer of note who convinces her to chronicle her experience-for him, harsh reality has rendered storytelling "impotent"-Mina's account has a Scheherazade -like sparkle. ![]() As grim as things are there, and for all the daily atrocities that force people to flee their homeland-military bombings, terrorist attacks, bureaucratic cruelties, vile prejudice-Mina's measured account is streaked with irreverence. ![]() The Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is fast becoming "an inhumane ," but Mina does her best to treat and comfort Sumaiya, a Syrian woman dying of cancer who has concealed her fate from her family. But when a friend working for a Swedish NGO calls for help, she goes. It has been decades since the surgeon, a Harvard alumnus in her late 50s who lives with her wife in Chicago and goes by the adopted name Mina Simpson, was in the Middle East. A Lebanese-born American surgeon reflects on her volunteer stint at a Greek refugee camp and her "cataclysmic family expulsion" for being trans. ![]()
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