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Michael Petrou is Historian of the Veterans\u2019 Experience at the Canadian War Museum, where he is leading In Their Own Voices<\/em><\/a>, an oral history project that explores how war and military services have shaped the lives of veterans and their loved ones, and how those veterans in turn have shaped Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petrou previously worked as an editor and foreign correspondent, reporting on war, conflict and social unrest across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the 2018 Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he earned his doctorate in Modern History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petrou’s publications include Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War and Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9\/11 Islamic World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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