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Romaissaa Benzizoune

Romaissaa Benzizoune is a NYTimes Opinion fellow, and a writer and editor from New York City. She has contributed to The New York Times, Buzzfeed, McSweeney’s, Teen Vogue and The Observer. Her recent editing work has been for Mizna, an award-winning literary arts journal based in St. Paul, Minn. She holds a master’s in Near Eastern studies from New York University and has been shaped profoundly by her Moroccan heritage. Her instinct is to live-tweet everything, but she’s getting better at it.
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