Ariela Freedman is a professor at

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, and author of several books. Freedman was born in

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, earned her Bachelor's degree at Concordia, returned to New York to earn her PhD at

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. She would become the Principal of Concordia's College of Liberal Arts. Her 2014 book, ''"Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf"'', was a book of literary criticism. Her book focussed on

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E.M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly '' A Room with a View'' (1908), ''Howards End'' (1910) and '' A Passage to India'' (1924). He also wrote numerous shor ...

, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Maddox Ford,

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and

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. Her 2017 book, ''Arabic for Beginners'', was a novel, in spite of the name - an account of woman who joined her husband in

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, and found a friendship with a Palestinian woman, which triggered her to learn Arabic. The '' Montreal Review of Books'' described her 2019 book, ''A Joy to be Hidden'', as showing ''"haunting power"''. The book's hero comes of age in grad school, in New York City, in the 1990s. Freedman has given public lectures on authors who have written about the

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, like

Molly Applebaum Molly Applebaum (born Melania Weissenberg, October 27, 1930) is a Polish people, Polish-Canadian people, Canadian Holocaust survivor and diarist. Scholars describe how her diary addressed aspects of surviving the Holocaust that usually went unaddr ...

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