Q&A: In exile
From the February 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Melhem Mansour lives in London now. But for nearly a year, he didn’t have anywhere to call home. “After my fellowship ended, I was just traveling around. I was in 12 countries,” he says. “I didn’t know where to go.” It was the spring of 2012, and he had just finished the three-month program at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. In his native Syria, violence was escalating. Before he left for Thailand, he had been detained and questioned for criticizing the government. If he returned, he risked being jailed.
Though he’s…
