The course Global Literature: Modern Writings from Women of the Non-Western World was one of the most important college classes I’ve ever taken as a writer. Dr. Jo Dulan at Salem College taught this literature course. It allowed me the ability to break out of US literature and explore books on a more global scale […]
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Welcome back to another installment of Badass Ladies in History! Today, I am extremely excited and honored to introduce you to one of the most badass ladies I’ve come across in a long while. Born sometime in the early 1200s, our spotlight lady did some crazy damage in her day, becoming the Sultan of Egypt […]
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I was in Cairo in December 2013 after the revolution and before the collapse of the newly elected government — in a narrow window of time when the very air in Egypt was buzzing with optimism. Amid peaceful, organized protests and very public police presence, the palimpsest that is Cairo was set to reinvent itself […]
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