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Maria Eliades

Maria Eliades is a contributing writer for the Ploughshares blog and has written for outlets like EurasiaNet, Versopolis, Hürriyet Daily News, and Gastronomica. She was previously an instructor at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. In her writing, Maria focuses on the intersect of culture and politics and minorities. She is fascinated by the implications of the past on current events. She holds a BA in English Literature from Drew University and a MSt in Modern Greek (with a focus in Turkish) from the University of Oxford.

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