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Sophie Hardach

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in Germany

November 09, 1979

Website

http://sophiehardach.blogspot.co.uk/

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Sophie Hardach was born in 1979 and grew up in Germany. She studied economics and political science at Edinburgh University and the National University of Singapore. After graduating, she worked as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in London, Milan, Tokyo and Paris, where she now lives.

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Sophie Hardach's Blog

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Looking for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris

One of my all-time favourite stories: a very special visit to Marie Curie's preserved lab and office at the Curie Museum in Paris outside of opening hours, to examine some of her belongings - which are still radioactive - with a Geiger counter. These subtle radioactive traces tell an incredible, vivid story of the early days of radioactivity research, and really take us inside the courageous,

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Average rating: 3.84 · 2,077 ratings · 264 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Confession with Blue Horses 4.04 avg rating — 1,386 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages 3.17 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Languages Are Good For Us 3.86 avg rating — 210 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Love and Other Wars 3.46 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noa im Nachtgebirge really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Selim's first view of Europe was a vast, thick carpet of shit.”
― Sophie Hardach, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

tags: fiction-novel-ironic

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“You think it's impossible to be a passive fighter? Well, sometimes fighting just means existing. Existing, not going away, and quietly biding your time.”
― Sophie Hardach, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

tags: europe, illegal-immigration, islam, kurdistan, political-fiction, sophie-hardach

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“But since Kurdistan did not, as such, exist; since it was an imaginary land, stretching over scraggy mountains and deep valleys in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria; since they were as landless as the Palestinians and as nameless as the Liberians, the Kurds didn't really exist either, and so, officially, they were Turks.”
― Sophie Hardach, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

tags: identity

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