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This course examines how images of veiled Muslim women are used to justify war

  • Written by Sara Rahnama, Assistant Professor of History, Morgan State University
imagePhotographs capture images of women in war-torn regions of the world. SHAH MARAI/AFP via Getty Imagesimage

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Course Title:

“Women and War”

What prompted the idea for the course?

When I was on a fellowship at the Library of...

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