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This link opens in a new windowGina Lennox interviewed mothers, musicians, doctors, teachers, soldiers and scholars ranging in age from 23 to 103 on life from a Kurdish perspective. The interviews were used in her book Fire, Snow and Honey, Voices from Kurdistan.
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