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Trying to Find Answers in Sri Lanka

May 2, 2019

By Adele Barker | I still crush garlic with the back of a wooden spoon. And once a month, I look up at the moon and say to myself, “it’s a poya,” the Sinhalese word for ‘full moon.’ I carry the island inside me, though it has been years since we lived there. I haven’t…
Remembering My Sojourn in Pakistan

February 26, 2016

By Adele Barker It was time to go home. I left Pakistan on February 5 only hours before my visa had expired and winged my way to Paris to see friends for five days before heading back to the U.S. I had mixed feelings about leaving. The pull of family, friends, and the deeply familiar…
Everyday Is Like Christmas in Rawalpindi

December 25, 2015

In an odd way, every day is like Christmas around here in Rawalpindi. The lights we put up once a year in the States are part of my everyday landscape in Pakistan. Red, blue, yellow and green lights are festooned outside the enormous wedding halls that dot the landscape of life here. Weddings are very…
10 Years Later, Sri Lanka Still Shows Scars from the Wrath of Tsunami

December 26, 2014

Adele Barker reflects on the tenth anniversary of the 2004 tsunami that claimed over 200,000 lives and left her former home of Sri Lanka deeply scarred.
The Feel of Peace in Sri Lanka

March 3, 2011

Adele Barker reflects upon the changes in the country she wrote about in Not Quite Paradise.
The Lives of Books

May 26, 2010

Speaking to a convention of Sri Lankan Tamil doctors, Adele Barker discovers renewal through books.
Adele Barker: Disaster’s Aftermath

February 9, 2010

Weeks after the Haitian earthquake, we want to see aid going where it needs to go.
Adele Barker: Jaffna Rebuilds: After The Tsunami In Sri Lanka

January 26, 2010

On election day in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker shares a dispatch from Jaffna, a city recovering from the country’s 26 year civil war.
Adele Barker: Tsunami Anniversary: A Christmas Without War

January 14, 2010

This post is the first of a series marking the anniversary of the 2004 tsunami. This week’s tragedy in Haiti calls painfully to mind the human loss and devastation of five years ago.

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