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Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Week in Death: The First Muslim Female Olympian Snubbed Adolf Hitler - The Daily Beast

The Week in Death: The First Muslim Female Olympian Snubbed Adolf Hitler

Halet Çambel, who has died aged 97, was an Olympic fencer and the first Muslim woman to compete in the Games; while she failed to take home a medal from the Berlin Olympics in 1936 she won international acclaim by refusing to meet Hitler. Post-war, she became a renowned archaeologist.

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