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Mar 21, 2022Liked by Juliana Barnet

You could publish a poll of reader-submitted faves. One that jumps to mind is a book that was made into a film about the WWII heroine Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of a famous Sufi leader, a pacifist, who felt so strongly called to support the War effort in the UK where her family had migrated she learned to operate the wireless (telegraph) from France, where she had been dropped from a plane. I have her biography by Shrabani Basu (there are others, see the books listed at the bottom here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan) and I first found out about her in the film, _A Call to Spy_. One of the tenderest references for me as a Jew by birth and a Sufi beloved is this piece, which includes her: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/08/meet-the-muslims-who-sacrificed-themselves-to-save-jews-and-fight-nazis-in-world-war-ii/

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