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Essay | Staying Mute by Sara Ahmad

Essays, Writing

‘If a Brazilian electrician, pursued by the police as a result of a series of blunders, can be shot in cold blood in front of the British public – how thin is the membrane separating victim and terrorist?’

Sarah Ahmad on the 7/7 bombings, 20 years on.

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