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Laura Secor



Laura Secor is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and other publications. She has served as a staff editor for the New York Times Op-Ed page, a reporter for the Boston Globe’s Ideas section, and as acting executive editor of the American Prospect. She was an editor and writer for Lingua Franca magazine from 1997-2001. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin both in the fall 2009 and spring 2013.

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Children of Paradise: The S...

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“In the West, he noted, criticism of religion had led to freedom of thought and the growth of science. But in Islamic societies, religion was the last line of defense against imperial domination and cultural decay.”
Laura Secor, Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran

“To remember was an act not of excavation but of self-creation in the present tense.”
Laura Secor, Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran

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