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Mark Shilen

Mark Shilen is a former paramedic with the New York City Fire Department. For 25 years before that he owned an art gallery in SoHo in Manhattan dealing in antique tribal weavings. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

WORLDVIEWS

Field Notes From Ukraine: A New York Paramedic Immersed in the Horrors of War

Mark Shilen
• June 20, 2022

I am a retired paramedic formerly with the New York City Fire Department. I now occasionally do nongovernmental organization-volunteer work overseas. In 2017, I worked with NYC Medics in Iraq during the battle to retake Mosul. Last year, I…

Categories: Peace and Security

OPINIONS

Flung Into Mosul, Stopping the Bleeding, Slowing Death

Opinion by Mark Shilen
• June 27, 2017

MOSUL, Iraq — For two weeks in early April and again in June, I was embedded in Mosul with an emergency-response division of the Iraqi army, which is fighting to retake the city from ISIS. The nonprofit organization I…