By Jane Kramer — 2015
After fifty years, Gloria Steinem is still at the forefront of the feminist cause.
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Almost nothing about the Friday prayer held yesterday in Morningside Heights in Manhattan was familiar to Samira Jaraba, a Palestinian immigrant who trekked alone on the subway from Brooklyn, cloaked in a cream headscarf, to see if the rumors were true.
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The imam talks activists as politicians, her Syrian refugee father, and a non-digital world.
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