![]() ![]() 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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