Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
by Melody Ermachild Chavis
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Meena founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987 at age thirty, and lives on in the hearts of all progressive Muslim women. Her voice, speaking for freedom, has never been silenced. The compelling story of Meena's struggle for democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan will inspire young women the world over. "Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan" is a portrait of a courageous mother, poet show more and leader who symbolizes an entire movement of women that can influence the fate of nations. It is also a riveting account of a singular political career whose legacy has been inherited by RAWA, the women who hold the keys to a peaceful future for Afghanistan. RAWA has authorized this first-ever biography of their martyred founder. show lessTags
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Read it because the story of these women needs to be heard, and don't expect a literary masterpiece.
(Three stars only because the writing leaves much to be desired.)
(Three stars only because the writing leaves much to be desired.)
It's an amazing story about Meena and about fearless women fighting for freedom and rights for women in one of the most obscure, backword country in the world, Afghanistan. If there is still hope there, than it is really little, unfortunately.
May 13, 2018Italian
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Melody Ermachild Chavis is the author of a memoir, Altars in the Street. Accompanied by Latifa Popal. Melody traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan to interview women who knew Meena. Melody works as a private investigator defending people facing capital punishment. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is also a peace and social justice show more activist show less
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- 2003
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 303.484092 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Social change Causes of change Purposefully induced change
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- HQ1735.6 .Z75 .M443 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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