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Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
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Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century
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by Patricia Pisters Watching horror movies Previously, I truly disliked horror films. In the late 1980s Brian de Palma’s Carrie…