Lily Hindy is a foreign policy associate at The Century Foundation, focusing on the Middle East. Lily has a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a bachelor’s in government from Smith College. She helped found RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues), a nonprofit organization that trains freelance conflict journalists in first aid, and served as deputy director from 2011–2016. Hindy has also worked at the Associated Press, and her work has been published there as well as the Huffington Post and the Christian Science Monitor. She speaks Spanish, Italian and Arabic. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/lily-hindy/rss en Displacement Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:58:49 +0000 Sima Ghaddar, Lily Hindy https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/12/04/a-nation-in-pieces-views-from-syrians-in-exile https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/12/04/a-nation-in-pieces-views-from-syrians-in-exile Syrians living in Lebanon, Europe and the U.S. reveal a common conviction that national unity and a common sense of identity are necessary to rebuild the country, but most say that both seem distant in a country divided along ethnic-sectarian lines.