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...fact, all of the survivors interviewed in the film are struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the social stigmatization that still haunts Communist-affiliated citizens in Indonesia.Lemelson, a professor at the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, began conducting research in Indonesia in 1996 as a Fulbright Scholar, and has continued his work on culture and mental illness there ever since. He learned of the 1965 holocaust through a conversation with a man who had lost his family as a result of the purge. Lemelson said he hopes that the film is eventually viewed by President Obama...
...coming at an increasingly complicated moment in relations between Damascus and Washington. Late last month, U.S. special forces launched a raid into eastern Syria targeting an alleged al-Qaeda weapons smuggler. In response, the Syrian government shut down an American school and cultural center in Damascus, and forced American Fulbright scholars based at Syrian institutions to leave the country. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the most recent raid was simply one of dozens that had been conducted on Syrian territory by U.S. special forces under secret orders signed by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...
...wiping out his family, Rajaram also wiped out the seemingly bright future of his children. "His family was healthy, his son [Krishna] was on a Fulbright scholarship at UCLA, his 7-year-old was at a magnet elementary school, a high-performing student, as was his 12-year-old," Moore said. He described their home as "organized and nicely adorned" with drawings by the children and photos of a smiling family. In short, there was nothing to suggest the violence that ended the suburban idyll...
Schiebinger was paired with Fleming because she was initially planning to write on European intellectual history but changed her topic during her time as a Fulbright scholar in Berlin...
ABDULRAHMAN ABDULLAH One of seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip whose Fulbright scholarships were revoked by the U.S. State Department because of Israel's policy of barring students from leaving the Hamas-controlled region "Israel talks about a Palestinian state. But who will build that state if we can get no training...