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Kanwal Rahman

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By Kanwal Rahman

Oral history interview with Kanwal Rahman, July 15, 1999: interview K-0817, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Rahman, Kanwal · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Kanwal Rahman came to Chapel Hill from Bangladesh in 1991 to study public health at UNC. Interviewed by Rajika Bhandari in July 1999 for the Southern Oral History Program, she describes her doubts about the move, the loneliness and heavy workload of graduate study, and the slow process of settling into American life as a woman immigrant. Runs about forty-four minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2007, in Documenting the American South.

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