Syria and the New World Disorder

Jim Fine served most recently in the Middle East as Mennonite Central Committee interim representative for Iraq, Iran, and Jordan, based in Amman, Jordan from March through June 2019. MCC supports internally displaced Syrians and Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. Jim and his wife, Deborah, also served as MCC service workers in Iraq from 2010 to 2014, based in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish Region in northern Iraq, where many Syrian Kurdish refugees sought safety. Prior to serving with MCC Jim worked on Iraq, Iran, and other Middle East issues at the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington from 2006 to 2010. Jim served with the American Friends Service Committee in Jerusalem in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s as co-director of the Quaker Legal Aid Office and Quaker International Affairs Representative for the Middle East. He holds an MA in comparative religion from Columbia University