Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home. This item is unavailable.Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home

Gabe Huckwas a Benedictine monk who has devoted himself to peace and justice issues since 1965. A conscientious objector to war, he counseled other COs and in 1967 cheered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s antiwar speech on Vietnam. In 1968, he walked as a mourner behind Dr. King's coffin. In 2005, he went to Damascus with Theresa and found a home among Syrians whom he found to be "well practiced in kindness to refugees." Theresa Kubasak always braided social justice activism into her 40 years as a teacher, including work she did with the Woody Guthrie Archives. In 1999, she traveled to Iraq in defiance of the US/UN sanctions. At age 54, Theresa resigned from the New York Public Schools to study Arabic in Damascus. There, she founded the Iraqi Student Project with her husband, Gabe Huck, teaching world literature and writing to Iraqi refugee students, and tutoring Syrian refugees in Istanbul.