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How do we open a discussion with those who define us as “other” or “different”? For Dima Kroma, the answer lies in using her passion for painting to communicate the cultural beauty of her native Syria. In “Lend Me Your Shoulder,” a painting depicting a small neighborhood archway, Dima shows viewers how a Syrian community rests on a strong bond between neighbors. Long ago, she explains, newlyweds in Syria often lived with the groom’s family; in turn, the groom’s father would ask the neighbor living across the walkway to “lend him his shoulder,” that is, allow him to use the neighbor’s wall in building the couple an archway—and residence—between the two homes
