A Woman Among Warlords:

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She continues her work:
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as   this interview demonstrates

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/5/16/Malalai-Joya-One-woman-standing-against-warlords


http://en.wikipedsia.org/wiki/Malalai_Joya

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A Woman Among Warlords: Malalai Joya in Canada for book tour Nov. 13 - 27

Montreal

Tuesday, Nov. 24, 7p.m. Salle Marie-Gerin-Lajoie, Pavillion Judith-Jasmin, UQAM. Metro Berri-UQAM. Suggested contribution: $5. Simultaneous translation available. Organized by Collectif Echec a la guerre and the Federation des femmes du Quebec.

Ottawa

Thursday, Nov. 26. Centretown United Church (507 Bank St) 7p.m., Ottawa Peace Assembly.

"This biography should have made Joya a leading player in Afghanistan's post-Taliban political life. Instead, she is a poster child for its failure. Saluted abroad for her courage and nominated for, or the winner of, a long list of international human rights and peace prizes, she lives clandestinely in Afghanistan itself, suspended from parliament for allegedly insulting the warlords and drug barons who occupy most of its seats." - New Statesman

"Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this inspiring memoir is that despite the horrors she relates, Malalai Joya leaves us with hope that the tormented people of Afghanistan can take their fate into their own hands if they are released from the grip of foreign powers, and that they can reconstruct a decent society from the wreckage left by decades of intervention and the merciless rule of the Taliban and the warlords who the invaders have imposed upon them." - Noam Chomsky

Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She has survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses.

Often compared to democratic leaders such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, this extraordinary young woman was raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan. Inspired in part by her father's activism, Malalai became a teacher in secret girls' schools, holding classes in a series of basements. She hid her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn't find them. She also helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah.

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