A Woman's Battle In A Man's World
ZARIFA GHAFARI WITH HANNAH LUCINDA SMITH
arifa Ghafari was three years old when the Taliban banned girls from schools, and she began her education in secret. She was seven when American airstrikes began. She was twenty-four when she became mayor (the only female mayor in the country) of Maidan Wardak, Kabul. An extremist mob barred her from her office; her male staff walked out in protest; assassins tried to kill her six times. Then they killed her father. Ghafari stood her ground.
