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Dr. Farid Hafez is a senior researcher with Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative, which tracks political Islamophobia, in Washington DC.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States ...

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Yeditepe University, TR-34755 Kayışdağı, İstanbul, Türkiye ...