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emphasizing the negative health consequences of colonial economic policies, labor migration, and the neglect of domestic food production due to a dependent relationship with colonial powers. In the year 2000, she examined the economic and political violence against women during the civil war in Uganda, highlighting the prevalence of rape by soldiers, its social and economic consequences, and proposed mitigating gender disputes through free education and adult literacy classes for women's rehabilitation. Her 2002 study traced the trajectory of women in
Algeria from active involvement in the war of independence to their later fight against eroding rights and inhumane treatment, especially during the civil war, highlighting ongoing resistance and organized movements. Moreover, in her 2021 research, she explored 20th-century demographic shifts in British-ruled Tanganyika, confronting the absence of precolonial data, questioning conventional fertility assumptions, highlighting the influence of new production modes on family size and child labor, and establishing links between population growth and health decline.
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Gallery, New York (2009); Sudden Appearances, Viridian Gallery, New York (2010); Imagined Realities, hob’art cooperative gallery, Hoboken, NJ (2014); The Lie of the Land, Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ (2016); Arguments of Light, Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ (2016); New Views of Old Hoboken, Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, NJ (2020); Life Distilled, Alfa Arts Gallery, New Brunswick (2020) and Latitudes/Longitudes/Meridians, Alfa Arts Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ (2021).
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Turshen has also participated in many group exhibitions, including the 2010 Binaries, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ; Viridian
Artists at Onward Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2010); The Women in our Lives, hob’art cooperative gallery, Hoboken, NJ (2015); Similarities and Differences, Viridian Gallery,
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African civil wars, combining reportage, testimony, and scholarship to discuss their roles as combatants and victims, as well as their responses to war and efforts for change, with a particular focus on gendered political violence such as rape. In
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Turshen has explored nature, landscapes, and interior spaces in her art, capturing and expressing them through a blend of abstract and figurative compositions. In 2008 she was inducted as a signature member of the
National Association of Women Artists. Her solo exhibitions include Post Scriptum,
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Turshen's research covers international health, with a focus on
African women's health and the repercussions of war on women. Her early research explored how malnutrition and disease in Tanzania's Songea District during the colonial era were shaped by economic, social, and political factors,
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Turshen, M. (2001). The political economy of rape: An analysis of systematic rape and sexual abuse of women during armed conflict in Africa. Victors, perpetrators or actors: Gender, armed conflict and political violence,
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Throughout her academic career, Turshen has authored and edited books on various topics, including exploration of the complex issues associated with the privatization of health services in Africa. In 1984, she authored
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Turshen, M. (2002). Algerian women in the liberation struggle and the civil war: From active participants to passive victims?. Social
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Turshen, M. (1977). The impact of colonialism on health and health services in
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