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    A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
    A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
    A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
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    A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

    By Malalai Joya

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    Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She has survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses.

    Often compared to democratic leaders such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, this extraordinary young woman was raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan. Inspired in part by her father's activism, Malalai became a teacher in secret girls' schools, holding classes in a series of basements. She hid her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn't find them. She also helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah. The endless wars of Afghanistan have created a generation of children without parents. Like so many others who have lost people they care about, Malalai lost one of her orphans when the girl's family members sold her into marriage.

    While many have talked about the serious plight of women in Afghanistan, Malalai Joya takes us inside the country and shows us the desperate dayto-day situations these remarkable people face at every turn. She recounts some of the many acts of rebellion that are helping to change the country -- the women who bravely take to the streets in peaceful protest against their oppression; the men who step forward and claim "I am her mahram," so the fundamentalists won't punish a woman for walking alone; and the families that give their basements as classrooms for female students.

    A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero for our times, a young woman who refused to be silent, a young woman committed to making a difference in the world, no matter the cost.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribner
    Release dateOct 20, 2009
    ISBN9781439132487
    A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
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    Malalai Joya

    Malalai Joya, at only 30 years of age, has been called “the most famous woman in Afghanistan” and compared to democratic leaders such as Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi. Born in Afghanistan’s remote Farah Province, she grew up in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan before returning to Afghanistan as a social activist and a teacher at underground girls’ schools during the Taliban’s reign. In 2003 she was elected to Afghanistan’s constitutional assembly and, two years later, was the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament, a post from which she was suspended in 2007 for her regular denunciation of the country’s warlords and their cronies in government.

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      The sub title to this thought provoking book published in July this year is ... 'the extraordinary story of the Afghan women who dares to speak out ... ' A most apt subtitle for a memoir of a young women born 30 years ago in the year that the Russians invaded Afghanistan. She speaks of her native land as 'a land of tragedy called Afghanistan'. Passionate and principled she chronicles her life so far - ranging from a growing up in refugee camps to becoming a member of the Afghan parliament this book records one woman's struggle to be heard.

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