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A bakery rises from Syria’s ancient past
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I
met Humaidi Abed in 1992 when I traveled to northeastern Syria to work
as a junior excavator at Tell Brak, a mound (tell in Arabic; Brak is the
name of the town today) that contains the remains of Nagar, one of the
oldest capital cities of ancient Mesopotamia.
Before
visiting the divided border towns of Nogales, students in “Labor
in Mexico’s Maquiladora Zone” study the political and economic
history of Mexico to provide a context for what they will see, hear and
read. Their instructor has condensed some of that information for Michigan
Today...
