Deconstructing Saphe Shamoun - Columbia Daily Spectator
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It was like every other Friday night of a New York City winter—the L wasn’t running and it was freezing out. I was on my way to Elsewhere, a massive live music venue in Bushwick, with one mission on my mind: find Saphe Shamoun, GS ’17, and current Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Columbia.
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Deconstructing Saphe Shamoun - Columbia Daily Spectator
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