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Mia Bloom
Mia Bloom is a professor of communication at Georgia State University. She is the author of several books, including
Bombshell: Women and Terror
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The Myth of the ISIS Female Suicide Bomber
She is almost entirely fictitious—so why are some people so keen to believe otherwise?
Simon Cottee
and
Mia Bloom
Sep 8, 2017
