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A Woman Among Warlords - The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice (Paperback)
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A Woman Among Warlords - The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice (Paperback)
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Malalai Joya was named one of "Time "magazine's 100 Most
Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in
the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in
secret girls' schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the
Taliban couldn't find them; she helped establish a free medical
clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah;
and at a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, 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.
Joya takes us inside this massively important and insufficiently
understood country, shows us the desperate day-to-day situations
its remarkable people face at every turn, and recounts some of the
many acts of rebellion that are helping to change it. A
controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places
on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero for our times.
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