The favored daughter : one woman's fight to lead Afghanistan into the future / Fawzia Koofi with Nadene Gourhi.
Koofi, Fawzia, 1975-; Ghouri, Nadene, 1975-
2012
DS371.43.K66 A3 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The favored daughter : one woman's fight to lead Afghanistan into the future / Fawzia Koofi with Nadene Gourhi.
Author Koofi, Fawzia, 1975-
Uniform Title Lettres à mes filles. English
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780230120679
0230120679
Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language English
Description vi, 266 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number DS371.43.K66 A3 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.581092 B
Summary The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, the author was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her life, she rose above her fate to becoming the first Afghani woman Parliament speaker. Here, she shares her amazing story, punctuated by a series of poignant letters she wrote to her two daughters before each political trip, letters describing the future and freedoms she dreamed of for them and for all the women of Afghanistan. Today, she is one of the most outspoken critics of human rights violations against Afghani women and children and uses her influence to bring global attention to the situation on the ground in Afghanistan, even as a frustrated American military considers relinquishing it to the Taliban. Her story movingly captures the political and cultural moment in Afghanistan, a country caught between the hope of progress and the bitterness of history. -- Provided by publisher.
Note First published in France as Lettres à mes filles.
Includes index.
Added Author Ghouri, Nadene, 1975-
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Stories of old
Just a girl
A terrible loss
Running
A village girl again
When justice dies
The war within
Losing her
One ordinary Thursday
Retreat to the north
Everything turns white
A Taliban wedding
An end before a beginning
The darkness pervades
Back to where I began
A daughter for a daughter
The darkness lifts
A new purpose
A movement for change
A dream for a war-torn nation
A historical timeline of Afghanistan.

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