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Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women’s Resistance |
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by Cheryl Benard and Edit Schlaffer
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Hard Cover
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Published by Broadway Books, 2002
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293 pages
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ISBN # 0767913019
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Price: $23.95
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Booknotes
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 The blue and violet burqas veil the women of courage who lived under the Taliban. These women were part of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Their primary mission was to clandestinely inform the world about the subjugation they experienced under the male-dominated Taliban.
Education for Afghan women has always been at a premium. Under the Taliban it became nonexistent. Talibs are literally the fundamentalist students of Allah. As such they reverted to the old customs of Afghanistan. In the patriarchal society of the last century, women were considered chattel. They were objects to be traded, sold or bartered to increase the economic status of the male.
Cheryl Bernard’s story tells how the resistance of the Afghan women began and was fueled by the stories, pictures and messages they sent to the outside world from places like the refugee camp at Nasir Bagh in Pakistan.
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