Hind Rassam Culhane

Professor Hind Rassam Culhane (born in Mosul, Iraq)cite web | url =http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=pubs-english&y=2007&m=February&x=20070202132102liameruoy0.9841883 | title =Hind training next generation of Iraqi teachers | accessdate =2007-08-21 | publisher =usinfo.state.gov] was born to an Iraqi father, Noel Rassam; a lawyer and a Lebanese mother, Sophie Bekhaazi who was a teacher.cite web | url =http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=pubs-english&y=2007&m=February&x=20070202132102liameruoy0.9841883 | title =Hind training next generation of Iraqi teachers | accessdate =2007-08-21 | publisher =usinfo.state.gov] She and her family later moved to the United States and she studied at Cazenovia Junior College in New York and later on at Rockford College in Illinois where she gained a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Psychology and Early Childhood Education. She then met her husband there, John Culhane who was a journalist working at the Rockford newspaper, in which they have two children together, Michael and Thomas. She later moved to New York City with her husband when he was hired by Newsweek magazine. She later became a professor at Mercy College and began her doctorate at Teachers College at Columbia University. cite web | url =http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=pubs-english&y=2007&m=February&x=20070202132102liameruoy0.9841883 | title =Hind training next generation of Iraqi teachers | accessdate =2007-08-21 | publisher =usinfo.state.gov] She often gives lectures on Iraq's history and civilization as a way of embracing her culture and heritage.She is the chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College, New York. cite web | url =http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=pubs-english&y=2007&m=February&x=20070202132102liameruoy0.9841883 | title =Hind training next generation of Iraqi teachers | accessdate =2007-08-21 | publisher =usinfo.state.gov] She was also a popular teacher at the University of Damascus Medical College in Syria, where she taught courses on child development, adolescent disorders and health service delivery. [ [http://www.cies.org/stories/s_hculhane.htm Teaching at University in Syria] ]

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