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Sunday, November 06, 2016

Book and Film to Teach About Refugees

Shabana Mir describes her class's use of Laila Lalami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Meenu Gaur's and Farjad Nabi's film Zinda Baag to learn about refugees.

Read her blog entry.

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