E175 | The war in Syria has displaced millions of people, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and disrupted the education of countless students. In this interview, Keith Watenpaugh, a historian who has also researched the situation of Syrian students in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, discusses the issues this young people face. He places the obstacles confronting the “lost generations†of Syrian students within the context of other recent refugee crises.

The series of reports by Keith Watenpaugh and his team members James King and Adrienne Fricke are reachable through our website http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com.

Keith Watenpaugh is a historian of the Modern Middle East and Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights & Peace at University of California-Davis.

Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.

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