MALALAI JOYA: A WOMAN AMONG WARLORDS

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MALALAI JOYA: A WOMAN AMONG WARLORDS

Friday, November 06 2009, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

by alexa

MALALAI JOYA: A WOMAN AMONG WARRIORS

Venue: All Saints Church, 132 N Euclid Avenue, Pasadena CA

Friday, November 6^th

Time: 7-9 pm

Website: www.afghanwomensmission.org

Proceeds: FREE event

"A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice" by Malalai Joya with Derrick O'Keefe (Scribner)

At 31, Malalai Joya has a long and courageous record of fighting for women's rights in

Afghanistan

. Now she is focusing on war lords, drug lords and corruption and the leaders she sees as supporting them.

Joya is an energetic political warrior. Born just before the Soviet invasion, she spent much of her childhood in foreign refugee camps where the family fled because of her father's political activity.

Her own dissident career began as a teenager secretly teaching women to read. That was a subversive activity when the Taliban temporarily ruled

Afghanistan

. The Taliban are extremist Muslims and narrowly restrict education of women.

Soon she was running her own clandestine girls' school. A burka - the tentlike garment the Taliban wanted all women to wear - proved useful to hide loads of books that might have aroused suspicion.

Elected to Parliament after the Taliban was defeated, Joya traded epithets with other members she calls drug lords, former puppets of the Soviets and war lords responsible for thousands of murders in the civil war.They called her “prostitute”, “infidel”, “traitor” and “communist”. She compared them to animals in a zoo or a stable and was suspended during the rest of her term for insulting colleagues.

Website: www.afghanwomensmission.org

Proceeds: FREE

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