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"For the enemy is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, those vessels of hatred who do bad things and call them good."


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My name is Thomasina Enam Jarrar and I am interested in World History, especially Middle Eastern history, and I currently live in Camden, New Jersey. I am a Brazilian-American and I am a Coptic Christian.



Why I joined Wikipedia

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I joined because I believe that free and unfettered access to information about all subjects, popular or not, is a key principle in wikipedia. I have found that wiki "membership has its privileges," particularly in the face of increasing calls for the deletion of not insignificant articles on controversial subjects.

Countries I have visited

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 Egypt  Israel  France  Brazil

User boxes

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This user is a bibliophile.
This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.
This user is interested in
Ancient Egypt.
This user's Agenda on Wikipedia is to STOP users who have an agenda on Wikipedia!
Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
NPOVThis user gets quite annoyed when they see POV in the mainspace.
ANAL 4This user advocates good grammar usage.

WikiLicense

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I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

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