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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.
Ninety-eight black and white photos, steeped in the pathos and predicament of the Afghan people, accompanied by soul-searching commentary and poetry from thirteen distinguished contributors. Basque-born photographer Alen Silva travelled twice across war-torn Afghanistan, to places few foreigners dare to venture, to bring us these soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins of Kabul, of the Bamiyan Buddhas, of Soviet tanks, of Afghan society -- the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people who welcomed him. Texts by Alen Silva, Alan Rachins, Bahman Ghobadi, Bernardo Atxaga, Ezzat Goushegir, Gillian Anderson, John Sistiaga, Malalai Joya, Michael Ratner, Mike Farrell, Suheir Hammad, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Toti Martinez de Lezea, and Yasmina Khadra.
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