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copyright 2012 by Peggy Kelsey

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Published by Pomegranate Grove Press

Austin, TX 78757

First Pomegranate Grove Printing 2012

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint: Dr. MS Noury: two poems titled Love, by Rabia Balkh translated by Dr. MS Noury.

Ketab Corporation: The Sin, by Forugh Farrokhzad. Translated by Ahmad Karimi Hakak in Remembering the Flight: A Parallel Text in English and Persian.

Ismail Salami: The Captive by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Ismail Salami Afghan.

Women’s Writing Project: Excerpted from Recipe for a Protest by Shakila. First published on the Afghan Women’s Writing Project blog: http://awwproject.org/2010/04/recipe-for-a-protest/.

Map of Afghanistan courtesy of University of Texas Libraries.

Jacquelyn Davidson: pictures of Tajwar Kakar taken in 1968.

Author photograph by Jane Steig Parsons

Afghan History Timeline by MG Wizard and P Kelsey

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

ISBN-10: 0985750200

ISBN-13: 978-0-9857502-0-6

eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-9857502-1-3

Includes bibliographical references and an index.

1. Women—Afghanistan—social conditions—21st century. 2. Afghanistan—social conditions—21st century. 3. Afghanistan—history—1979-2012. 4. Afghanistan—personal narratives. 5. Muslim Women. 6. Women Social Reformers—Afghanistan—biography. I. Kelsey, Peggy. II Title.

Cover photo: Sahraa Karimi, Afghan filmmaker

Title Page: Round Islamic decoration with a historic symbolic meaning. The circle represents the Earth, the leaves symbolize nature and harmony. The star shape radiates equally from every corner and represents the center and expansion of Islam and its unity. Islamic Ornament created by Anicka / FreeVectors.net