Mara Moustafine is a PhD student in history at the University of Technology Sydney and a Member of Australia’s Refugee and Migration Review Tribunals. She is also senior research associate on the Making Multicultural Australia educational website project and an inaugural board member of the Institute for Cultural Diversity. Bilingual in Russian and English, Mara was born in Harbin, China and grew up in Australia. She holds a BA (Hons) from Sydney University and MA in International Relations from the Australian National University. Her diverse career has included work for the Australian Government as a diplomat and intelligence analyst, as a senior business executive in South East Asia and as National Director of Amnesty International Australia. Her award-winning book, Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files (Random House Australia, 2002) tells the story of Russians in Harbin through the experience of her family who lived there over 50 turbulent years. A Chinese edition was published as Harbin Dang’an (Zhonghua Book Company, 2008). See http://www.maramoustafine.com
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