She helped people fleeing conflicts in Vietnam, China, Kosovo and elsewhere around the world, and established the Washington office of the International Rescue Committee.
Author: ADAM NOSSITER
Paulin Hountondji, Revolutionary African Philosopher, Dies at 81
He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.
Philippe de Gaulle, Admiral and Son of Charles de Gaulle, Dies at 102
His exploits in World War II and later in Algeria and Indochina were not enough for him to emerge from the shadow of his father, for whom a thousand streets in France are named.
Marnia Lazreg, Muslim Scholar Who Critiqued the Veil, Is Dead at 83
A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
Josette Molland, Who Told of Life in Nazi Camps Through Art, Dies at 100
She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her story, too, would survive, she depicted them years later in a series of stark paintings.
Alfred Grosser, Champion of French-German Reconciliation, Dies at 99
A German-born Jew who became a French writer and activist, he devoted his life to healing the divide between two historic enemies after the trauma of World War II.
Riad al-Turk, the ‘Mandela of Syria,’ Dies in Exile at 93
Imprisoned four times, he spent almost 20 years in Syria’s prisons, nearly 18 in solitary confinement, for speaking out against the Assad regimes. He died in France.
Khaled Nezzar, General at Center of Algeria’s Bloodshed, Dies at 86
In the 1990s, he oversaw troops that committed a host of atrocities against equally brutal Islamist rebels in what became known as the Black Decade.
Yacouba Sawadogo, African Farmer Who Held Back the Desert, Dies at 77
Against the odds, facing the encroaching Sahara, he built a forest in Burkina Faso, becoming “a national hero” and winning acclaim abroad for his innovations.
Shlomo Avineri, Israeli Scholar Skeptical About Peace, Dies at 90
A former liberal government official, he saw little chance of full reconciliation with Palestinians in “the foreseeable future” but nevertheless sought to ease tensions.