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  • Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory

    An Odyssey Across Two Oceans & Nine Countries to Arrive Home
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    Paul Wojdak’s father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were banished to Siberia for rising against czarist Russia’s repressive policies aimed to destroy Polish language and culture, and they...


  • A Bar on Adly Street

    An Egyptian Memoir
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    It's 1971. Egypt is still reeling from the sudden death of its “benevolent” tyrant Nasser and teeters on the precipice of Sadat’s era of unrelenting Islamization. Ghabrial is an engineering graduate student and a TA, moonlighting in an office...


  • Fresh Voices from the Periphery

    Youthful Perspectives of Minorities 100 Years After Trianon
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    Fresh Voices from the Periphery is evidence that history matters — not only the study of the past — but also by shedding light on how events of the past have impacted lives in the present. You are holding in your hands a collection of...


  • Citadel of Shia Imams

    Persecution & Resistance
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    Unfairly demonized by its adversaries—including the Sunni Arab countries, along with the US and EU—Iran is wary of the world's powers, after having been preyed upon to achieve other countries' political aims. Iranians are Shia Muslims, a minority...