Back to Damascus

As many of you already know, Jill and I have been invited back to Damascus to continue the work begun in March. We leave May 20 with an overnight in Dubai. We will be in Damascus two weeks.

Jill will be meeting with her workshop participants and visiting schools. Students with special needs will begin to enter regular classrooms in Fall. This will be piloted with about 1,000 kids throughout the country, but that may be ambitious.

I will be meeting with my workshop participants to discuss what stories they have been able to work on since I left. We will also examine ways to find and prepare stories--most likely focused on Jill's inclusion program. There is also a chance I will be working with a new cadre of journalists, meeting with an ad hoc committee of journalists, etc.

We are so happy that we will be staying at the same hotel--Hanania. We loved the place and the people who cared for us there. Will be like going home.

Once again, we will count on Seth to post our blogs because we can't get access to the site from Syria.

So keep watching and reading.