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An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable
choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan. How far would you go to protect yourself? Your
dignity? Your family? In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth
to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often
be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the
city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed
soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman's bulging stomach,
terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Propelled by the love she
held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood
and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. But the joy of her
beautiful son's birth was soon overshadowed by other dangers that
would threaten her life. No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused
to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order.
Defying the law, at the age of thirteen, she risked her freedom to
teach children reading and writing and fought for women's rights in
her theocratic and patriarchal society. Devastating in its power,
Dancing in the Mosque is a mother's searing letter to the son she
was forced to leave behind. In telling her story - and that of
Afghan women - Homeira challenges us to reconsider the meaning of
motherhood, sacrifice, and survival.
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