Hind Rassam Culhane

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.^[1] 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Rassam Culhane met her husband, John Culhane, while attending college. They had two children together, Michael and Thomas. John Culhane died in 2015 at the age of 81.^[3]