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Six Questions with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, author of “Epidemic Empire”
January 28, 2021By PublicityTeam
Terrorism has often been described as a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. In her new book, Epidemic Empire,
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
tracks this persistent trope of terrorism as a “social contagion,” from its roots in anti-rebellion colonial rhetoric through to the global war on terror. Raza Kolb’s demonstrates that the metaphor surfaces again and again at moments of crisis including the current COVID-19 crisis. We asked the author a few questions about her book.