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List Of Afghan Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Afghanistan or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Atia Abawi (born 1982), American author and television journalist of Afghan descent * Lina AbiRafeh, Arab-American (non-Afghan) author of '' Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan'' * Muqadasa Ahmadzai (born 1992/1993), poet, social activist, and politician * Soraya Alekozei (born 1955), Afghan-born memoirist, interpreter, and veteran, based in Germany * Najwa Alimi, journalist, humanitarian * Shakaiba Sanga Amaj (1986–2007), assassinated journalist * Zarghona Anaa (?–1772), poet * Nadia Anjuman (1980–2005), poet * Asma Rasmya (1877–?), editor, school principal, and feminist * Najiba Ayubi journalist and activist B * Fevziye Rahgozar Barlas (born 1955), poet, and short story writer * Babo Jan (fl. 1880), Afghan royal consort and poet * Basira Joya (c.2001) news anchor for Zan TV and Ariana Television Network D * Maryam Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran border, west, Turkmenistan to the Afghanistan–Turkmenistan border, northwest, Uzbekistan to the Afghanistan–Uzbekistan border, north, Tajikistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, northeast, and China to the Afghanistan–China border, northeast and east. Occupying of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains Afghan Turkestan, in the north and Sistan Basin, the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. , Demographics of Afghanistan, its population is 40.2 million (officially estimated to be 32.9 million), composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. Kabul is the country's largest city and ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Durani
Maryam Durani (مَریَم دورانی) (born 1987) is an Afghanistan, Afghan activist and women's advocate. In 2012 she received the International Women of Courage Award. Life and career Maryam Durani is the daughter of Haji Mohammad Eisa Durani, and she is a member of the Durrani tribe. She graduation, graduated from the Payam Noor and American University of Afghanistan. She has a Academic degree, degree in Law and Political Science and business. Despite the area's extremely conservative view toward women, Durani serves as a leader, role model, and advocate for women in Kandahar. First elected as a Kandahar Provincial Council Member in 2005 at the age of 21 and for a second term in 2009, Durani served as one of only four women on the Council and has brought women's concerns and a woman's perspective to the activities and discussions of the Council. As a young, emerging leader in southern Afghanistan, Durani's courage and dedication to the women of Afghanistan are embedded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dari
Dari (, , ), also known as Dari Persian (, ), is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language,Lazard, G.Darī – The New Persian Literary Language", in ''Encyclopædia Iranica'', Online Edition 2006. hence it is known as Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian in many Western sources. As Professor Nile Green remarks "the impulses behind renaming of Afghan Persian as Dari were more nationalistic than linguistic" in order to create an Afghan state narrative. Apart from a few basics of vocabulary, there is little difference between formal written Persian of Afghanistan and Iran. The term "Dari" is officially used for the characteristic spoken Persian of Afghanistan, but is best restricted to formal spoken registers. Persian-speakers in Afghanistan prefer to still call their language “Farsi,” while Pashto-speakers may sometimes refer to it as "Parsi." Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farzana Marie
Farzana Marie (born in 1983) is the pen name of Felisa Hervey, an American poet, author, and former United States Air Force officer. Early life Hervey was born in California to Episcopal Church missionary parents, Debbie and John Hervey. Felisa and her five siblings lived with their parents in Chile and Kazakhstan before returning to their native California when she was 15. Work Hervey joined the United States Air Force Academy in June 2001. Before graduating, she travelled to Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004 to work in an orphanage and learn Dari. After graduation and joining the US Air Force, she spent two years working in Kabul where her fluency in Dari enabled community relations work. She received a Bronze Star Medal in 2012, the same year her six-year deployment to Afghanistan ended. After her military career, Hervey returned to Kabul to study and later to work for NATO. She worked as an editor and translator, using the pen name Farzana Marie. Hervey studied for a PhD in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Mahboob
Maryam Mahboob is an Afghan author known for her writing on Afghan migrants, and on patriarchy in Afghan society. Mahboob was born in Maimana, Afghanistan in 1955. Due to her father's employment with the Afghan government, she experienced the lifestyle of Afghan women in different parts of the country. She completed her secondary education in Kabul, and attended Tehran University for her Master's degree. Following the Russian occupation of Afghanistan in 1979, Mahboob left the country to move first to Pakistan, and then to Delhi, India in 1981. Along with other Afghan expatriates, Mahboob started the journal ''Gahnama'' ("irregular journal") to express cultural resistance against both the communist government of Afghanistan and the Mujahideen. However, facing pressure from the Mujahideen amongst the Afghan community in India, she migrated once again to move to Canada in 1983. Mahboob produced most of her major fiction works while in diaspora A diaspora ( ) is a populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi ( fa, فوزیه کوفی, ; born in 1975) is an Afghan politician, writer, and women's rights activist. Originally from Badakhshan province, Koofi was recently a member of the Afghan delegation negotiating peace with the Taliban in Doha Qatar. She is an ex Member of Parliament in Kabul and was the Vice President of the National Assembly. Biography Youth and education Koofi's father was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 25 years but died at the end of the first Afghan war (1979–1989), killed by Mujahideen. Born into a polygamous family of seven women, Koofi was first rejected by her parents because of her gender. Her father had married a younger woman and her mother sought to have a son to maintain her husband's affection. The day Koofi was born, she was left out to die in the sun. Koofi managed to persuade her parents to send her to school, making her the only girl in the family to attend. She originally pursued a medical degree but was unable to continue when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fowzia Karimi
Fowzia Karimi is an Afghan-American author and illustrator who won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 2011. Early life and education Karimi was born in Kabul and relocated to the United States in 1980. She has a masters in fine arts degree from Mills College at Northeastern University, in California. Career Karimi won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 2011. She illustrated Micheline Aharonian Marcom's 2017 book ''The Brick House.'' She illustrated the Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner's translation of Goethe's ''Faust'', published by Deep Vellum Books, in 2020. Karimi is the author of the illustrated book ''Above us the Milky Way: An Illuminated Alphabet,'' published by Deep Vellum, in 2020). The book was Karimi's first, is autobiographical, and incorporates family photographs and watercolour paintings. The book follows the stories of five sisters, who are born in Afghanistan and relocate to the United States. It was described by '' D Magazine a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya ( ps, ملالۍ جویا) (born 25 April 1978) is an activist, writer, and a politician from Afghanistan. She served as a Parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Afghanistan from 2005 until early 2007, after being dismissed for publicly denouncing the presence of warlords and war criminals in the Afghan Parliament. She was an outspoken critic of the Karzai administration and its western supporters, particularly the United States. Her suspension in May 2007 generated protest internationally and appeals for her reinstatement were signed by high-profile writers, intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, and politicians including members of parliament from Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain. She was called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan" by the BBC. In 2010, ''Time'' magazine placed Malalai Joya on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Foreign Policy Magazine listed Malalai Joya in its annual list of the Top 100 Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Hashimi
Nadia Hashimi (born December 12, 1977) is a pediatrician, novelist, and a former Democratic congressional candidate for the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 6th congressional district. Hashimi is the author of three international bestselling novels, ''The Pearl that Broke Its Shell,'' ''When the Moon Is Low, and A House Without Windows.'' Early life Hashimi was born on December 12, 1977, in Queens, New York, to Afghan parents. Her parents immigrated to the United States in the early 70's. Her parents intended to return to Afghanistan after a few years, but the country became unsafe as a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. They remained in New York and became entrepreneurs. Nadia Hashimi and her brother were raised in both New Jersey and upstate New York. Education and medical career Hashimi attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she obtained degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Biology. She went on to obtain her medical deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangina Hamidi
Rangina Hamidi (Pashto: رنګینه حمیدي; born 1978) is an Afghan-American writer, educator, social activist and politician. She is well known as an advocate for women's rights in Afghanistan and has engaged in various social projects to empower girls and women in Afghanistan. Hamidi has served as an education minister of Afghanistan until the Taliban takeover. She is the first female education minister of Afghanistan. Despite Afghanistan being taken over by the Taliban, she vowed to stay in Afghanistan and continue her humanitarian efforts by actively involving in empowerment of Afghan women. Early life Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1978, in a Pashtun family, to Mayor of Kandahar, Ghulam Haider Hamidi. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980, she along with her family emigrated to Pakistan in 1981 at the age of four as a refugee and lived in Quetta. Later, she moved to the United States with her family in 1988 and was raised up near Washington DC. She ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chékéba Hachemi
Chékéba Hachemi ( prs, شکیبا هاشمی), (born May 20, 1974) is an Afghan feminist and writer. She was the first Afghan woman to be named diplomat, in 2001. Hachemi is the President and founder of the NGO Afghanistan Libre. Early life and education Chékéba Hachemi was born in Kabul in 1974. She flew her home country during the Soviet invasion in 1986 and arrived in France at the age of 11. She completed her studies at an École supérieure de commerce business school in Paris. Career and activism Hachemi founded the organization Afghanistan Libre in 1996 in response to the deterioration of Afghan girls' and women's rights under the Taliban regime. For more than 20 years, the objective of Afghanistan Libre has been to facilitate the access to education, health and vocational trainings for girls and women in rural areas of Afghanistan to enable them to gain independence and to inform the world about the living conditions of Afghan women. During 10 years, the organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalida Furugh
Khalida Furugh (born 1972; ) is an Afghan poet and academic. She is considered one of the country's leading female poets. Biography Khalida Furugh was born in Kabul in 1972. After graduating high school, she studied literature at Kabul University. Early in her career, she joined Radio Afghanistan Radio Afghanistan, also known as Radio Kabul or Voice of Sharia, is the public radio station of Afghanistan, owned by Radio Television Afghanistan. The frequencies are 1107 kHz (AM) and 105.2 MHz (FM) for the Kabul area. The name ''Radio Kabul'' ...'s arts and literature department, eventually becoming head of the literature section in 1994. She left Afghanistan during the Taliban's rule in the 1990s and early 2000s, living in Pakistan, and then returning after their fall. Furugh is best known for her work as a poet. Her writing is popular in Afghanistan. She has been described as one of the "most promising poets of her generation," and she is considered one of her country's lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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