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Amra Sabic El-Rayess Featured on CBS 2’s Snapshot
November 4, 2020

Amra Sabic El-Rayess (Associate Professor of Practice, Teachers College), author of the highly acclaimed memoir The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival (Bloomsbury, 2020), talks with CBS 2’s Steve Overman about the concept of othering, where people in one group are treated differently. In the inteview Sabic El-Rayess speaks of being a child during the Bosnian genocide and how her self-education helped attract the attention of a philanthropist who brought her to the United States, where she enrolled at Brown Universitybefore coming to Columbia for her Ph.D.

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