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Interviewee	Hoff, Reem
Interviewer	Wingerd, Zachary
Title	Oral Memoirs of Reem Chehaza Hoff
Interview details	Interviewed by Zachary Wingerd on June 17, 2016, in Woodway, Texas.
Number of interviews	14
Interview Date(s)	2016
Resource Type	Interview
Format	PDF Audio
Genre	Oral histories;
Language	English;
Description, transcript	In progress
Description, sound recordings	digital audio file; 0.83 hr.
Collection	Special
Project	From Mid-East Crisis to a Lone Star Home: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Christians in Texas
Summary	Reem Chehaza Hoff was a Syrian Christian who married an American and moved to the United States before the civil war in Syria;
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History;
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX;
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

Interviewee	Hoff, Reem
Interviewer	Wingerd, Zachary
Title	Reem Chehaza Hoff -- Audio Recording
Interview details	Interviewed by Zachary Wingerd on June 17, 2016, in Woodway, Texas.
Number of interviews	1
Interview Date(s)	2016
Resource Type	Interview
Format	Audio
Genre	Oral histories;
Language	English;
Description, sound recordings	digital audio file; 0.83 hr.
Collection	Special
Project	From Mid-East Crisis to a Lone Star Home: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Christians in Texas
Summary	Reem Chehaza Hoff was a Syrian Christian who married an American and moved to the United States before the civil war in Syria; background of her life and childhood in Syria as a Christian 00:00:23 ; her time in the public schools of Syria with mostly Muslim teachers and peers 00:02:41 ; discussing how few differences separated Muslims and Christians when she grew up in Syria 00:08:27 ; Syrian government’s treatment of different religious minorities 00:11:53 ; the meaning of identifying as a Syrian 00:14:17 ; her understanding of Syria as a target of the US because of its opposition to Israel in different conflicts 00:15:57 ; positive memory of Bashar al-Assad and the ways he improved the Syrian economy 00:17:57 ; her marriage to an American as the reason she moved to the United States 00:20:23 ; negative portrayal of Syria by the American media 00:21:53 ; the commitment to being independent and not in a relationship with America differentiating Syria from other Middle Eastern countries 00:23:43 ; modernization of Syria, 2007–2011, when she lived in the United States 00:25:28 ; her experience at the start of the war as more peaceful than the US media portrayed 00:26:22 ; Syrian media’s portrayal of the United States as a land of license 00:28:28 ; her treatment by Americans and the cultural ignorance of many Americans 00:31:49 ; discussion of Syrian military service and who must serve 00:32:54 ; number of denominations and divisions in the American churches acting as main difference between religion in Syria and the United States 00:36:35 ; greater degree of comfort in the United States, but less connections to family 00:38:09 ; discussing how the war in Syria is being continued by foreign terrorists and extremists 00:40:30 ; opinion that most Syrians now support the Assad government because of its stability 00:43:24 ; desire for Americans to cease supporting the rebels 00:46:58.
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History;
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX;
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

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