Hind Rassam Culhane
Hind Rassam Culhane is an Iraqi-born American educator and former journalist.
Early life and education
Rassam Culhane was born in Mosul, Iraq, to an Iraqi-Assyrian father and a Lebanese mother. As a child, she and her family moved to the United States. Rassam Culhane studied at Cazenovia College before earning a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in early childhood education from Rockford College.Career
Rassam Culhane moved to New York City with her husband and worked at Newsweek. She later became a professor at Mercy College and began her doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University.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. She was also a teacher at the Damascus University - Faculty of Medicine, where she taught courses on child development, adolescent disorders and health service delivery.