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Rugs and Facebook: “Battleground War Rugs from Afghanistan”

By: Gabrielle Niu

With the political uprisings that have swept across the Middle East and Northern Africa in the past few months, we see the important role that social media has played in elucidating the general public as well as in creating and portraying a cohesive national voice for the people themselves during times of conflict.  Without the […]

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