Articles by Erin Blakemore

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The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman
Erin Blakemore - Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb 2017

A little-known fact about Lady Liberty adds an intriguing twist to today’s debate about refugees from the Muslim world: The statue itself was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus of Rhodes for the Industrial Age. That might be surprising to people more familiar with the statue’s French roots than its Arab ones.

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