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‘Favored Daughter’: Fawzia Koofi on Making Women’s History in Afghanistan

By Chris Lombardi

"Giving up is not what our family does," Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi writes her daughters. She proves it by simply telling her life story—and, with it, the story of her proud nation.

The Wednesday Five: Erica Jong’s New Book, Tenant Confessions, and Bonding with the Feminist Hulk

By Women's Voices For Change

This week's blog tour is more fun than we planned between Feminist Hulk, Erica Jong's new collection of sex memoirs, and a geek-festival of a Ford Motor Co. tour.

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Embedded in Afghanistan

By Mare Contrare

People thought I was crazy when I announced that I’d like to go to Afghanistan and write a book about it. They thought I was even crazier when I actually went.

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Sarah Chayes on real life in Afghanistan; Nobelist Shirin Ebadi rousted before UDHR celebration; Ingrid Betancourt on captivity and freedom

By Womens Voices for Change

Kandahar candid: Veteran reporter Sarah Chayes left NPR in 2002 to live and work full-time in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban government. After three years of rebuilding homes and working with a dairy collective, she set up the Arghand co-op, which produces hand-made silks, soaps, and body oils to be sold in the US and Canada. Arghand…

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‘Favored Daughter’: Fawzia Koofi on Making Women’s History in Afghanistan

The Wednesday Five: Erica Jong’s New Book, Tenant Confessions, and Bonding with the Feminist Hulk

Embedded in Afghanistan

Sarah Chayes on real life in Afghanistan; Nobelist Shirin Ebadi rousted before UDHR celebration; Ingrid Betancourt on captivity and freedom

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