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Sima Samar - Outspoken, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Outspoken

My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

Av Sima Samar

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Sima Samar has spent her life challenging power in Afghanistan. A pioneering doctor, she provided healthcare to women in some of the country’s most remote regions, often at significant personal risk. She went on to become Minister of Women’s Affairs, becoming one of the Taliban’s most determined critics.Born into a Hazara family and raised in a polygamous household, Samar grew up understanding the consequences of gender and ethnic inequality in Afghanistan. Forced into an arranged marriage, she was still a young doctor when her husband was disappeared by the pro-Soviet regime. In the aftermath, she faced a stark choice: retreat into safety or dedicate herself to resisting injustice in all its forms. Over decades of war, displacement, threats and exile, she has remained unwavering in her commitment to women’s rights and human dignity, building institutions, delivering care and refusing to be silenced. This memoir is her account of a life lived at the centre of Afghanistan’s most turbulent history – an intimate and unflinching testimony of courage, loss and enduring resistance.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-03-12
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 40 mm
  • Vikt: 400 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: SAQI BOOKS
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Saqi Books
  • ISBN: 9780863568985
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Moore Prize 2024 (Afghanistan)
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Sima Samar is an Afghan doctor, human rights activist and advocate for women’s rights. She founded the Shuhada Organization and served as Afghanistan’s Minister of Women’s Affairs and as Chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. Her work has been recognised with numerous international honours, including the Right Livelihood Award, the Profile in Courage Award and the Ms. Magazine Women of the Year Award. She is currently a Visiting Scholar and Fellow at Tufts University.Sally Armstrong is an award-winning author, journalist and human rights activist.

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'Memoirs don’t come much more inspirational than this…Acknowledging that “most of the world sees us as a people at war”, Samar carefully balances a steely indictment of her country’s repressive tendencies with an affection for her heritage. It’s a crucial complement to American narratives about Afghanistan.'

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