Post by DebiCates on Apr 14, 2005 22:01:02 GMT -5
And here's an excerpt of a very long article about Hania Mufti's incredible life's work in Atlantic Monthly. This is the bit about her years at BHS:
"At the age of fourteen she returned from England to
attend a coeducational Quaker boarding school in a
beautiful mountain village called Brummana, overlooking
Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea. Beirut was still an
island of tolerance at the time, and the Quaker school
was the same to a higher degree. It was enlightened,
pacifist, secular, accepting, and intellectually strong --
an island with an island in the Middle East. These were
years of happiness for Hania, and she bloomed."
from "The Accuser" by William Langewiesche, Atlantic Monthly, March 2005
"At the age of fourteen she returned from England to
attend a coeducational Quaker boarding school in a
beautiful mountain village called Brummana, overlooking
Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea. Beirut was still an
island of tolerance at the time, and the Quaker school
was the same to a higher degree. It was enlightened,
pacifist, secular, accepting, and intellectually strong --
an island with an island in the Middle East. These were
years of happiness for Hania, and she bloomed."
from "The Accuser" by William Langewiesche, Atlantic Monthly, March 2005