![]() | One Family''s Response To Terrorism: A Daughter''s Memoir Subjects: Kerr Malcolm H.; Victims of terrorism -- Lebanon -- Biography; Terrorism -- Lebanon -- Case studies; American University of Beirut -- Presidents -- Biography; College presidents -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- Biography; Van de Ven Susan Kerr; Americans -- Midd; On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. At the time, the chaos of Lebanon's civil war made it impossible to investigate who had carried out the killing and why. Susan Kerr van de ven was born in 1958 at the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. As a child she lived in the United States, Egypt, Lebanon, France, England, and Tunisia. She earned a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies and a doctorate in education from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, England, where she runs a creative writing program for primary school children and serves as an elected Liberal Democrat councilor on South Cambridgeshire District Council. |
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