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Professor Mia Bloom on Women Suicide Bombers

February 5, 2010 at 5:28 pm Lori Shontz Leave a comment

Mia Bloom, a faculty member in international studies and women’s studies, has a book coming out later this year called Bombshell: Women and Terror, and the research she conducted on female suicide bombers has her popping up in news stories.

This week, her research was referenced in a UPI special report called “Suicide Sisterhood: Al-Qaida’s Female Bombers.” And in late January, her book got a mention in this essay by Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey, which explored the role of women in jihad. Dickey quotes from a draft of Bloom’s book: “There is an army of female organizers, proselytizers, teachers, translators and fund-raisers, who either enlist with their husbands or succeed those who are jailed or killed.”

Click here to learn a little more about Bloom and her colleagues at Penn State’s International Center for the Study of Terrorism.

Lori Shontz, senior editor

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