Not Really Strangers
Not Really Strangers
USA for UNHCR
Caring in Crisis and Responding to Hate: Dr. Suzanne Barakat’s Story
38 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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In this episode of Not Really Strangers, host Suzanne Ehlers welcomes her "name twin" — Dr. Suzanne Barakat, physician, humanitarian, and a leading voice on refugee health, asylum medicine, and countering Islamophobia. Dr. Barakat, who is from North Carolina, traces her connection to the refugee experience back to her own roots: from summers in Syria and then two years of high school there, to watching as an adult as the Syrian crisis forced her her extended family— who once all lived o...