Savvy Women Exchanging Relevant Views will meet next week for the program “Syria and the Refugee Crisis in the Middle East.”

SWERV gathers from 10:30 to noon Tuesday, July 10 at Filipino American Hall,

7566 High School Road.

All women are invited to hear professor Paula Holmes-Eber discuss the conditions on the ground as poor countries surrounding Syria attempt to absorb 8 million refugees fleeing the conflict there.

She will also address ways to truly help the suffering.

An anthropologist, Holmes-Eber is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington who has published extensively and taught courses about the peoples and cultures of the Islamic Middle East.