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Celebrated women’s rights activist and former member of the Afghan parliament Malalai Joya was scheduled to promote a new edition of her book “A Woman Among Warlords.” The Afghan Women’s Mission [...]

Check out Le Monde Diplomatique‘s interview with Malalai Joya, who we’ve written about here several times before. They present a bit of her compelling biography, as well as some of [...]

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of hearing Afghan activist and suspended member of Parliament Malalai Joya speak in Berkeley. Joya is in the United States promoting her new book A Woman [...]

As politicians and pundits debate sending more troops to Afghanistan, many of them will argue that we need to protect the women and girls of Afghanistan with military force. But what is the [...]