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Malalai Joya

Malalai Joya

Malalai Joya

Malalai Joya, at only 30 years of age, has been called "the most famous woman in Afghanistan" and compared to democratic leaders such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi. Born in Afghanistan's remote Farah Province, she grew up in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan before returning to Afghanistan as a social activist and a teacher at underground girls' schools during the Taliban's reign. In 2003 she was elected to Afghanistan's constitutional assembly and, two years later, was the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament, a post from which she was suspended in 2007 for her regular denunciation of the country's warlords and their cronies in government.

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Indian News Link, November 10, 2011
...currently being translated into German, Spanish, Italian, French, Serbian, Croatian and Polish. An inspiring and brave Afghan woman Malalai Joya was also a guest at this year’s Melbourne Writers’ Festival.  She is a writer and an activist in her...
Global Research, October 13, 2011
...new interview now on GRTV - by Michel Chossudovsky - 2011-10-07 Watch the statement on GRTV - by Malalai Joya - 2011-10-07 - by T.S. Subramanian - 2011-10-07 Don’t Let Him Get Away With It... - by Prof. Michael Hudson - 2011-10-07 President Obama’s...
Georgia Straight, October 10, 2011
...bulwark against the Taliban returning to power. To Glavin, their comments reinforce his view that former Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya has been misleading Canadians when she says that NATO’s presence is making things worse for her country. To...
Global Research, October 10, 2011
...new interview now on GRTV - by Michel Chossudovsky - 2011-10-07 Watch the statement on GRTV - by Malalai Joya - 2011-10-07 - by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2011-10-07 Find out now on GRTV - by Tony Benn - 2011-09-21 - by Sherwood Ross - 2011-09-01 The...
WA Today, September 4, 2011
...there's not much crossover in a skill sense.'' For political passion, we had the former Afghan politician Malalai Joya and American-Egyptian commentator Mona Eltahawy, who blasted her way through a session on the Middle East with an analysis of the...
TheStar.com.my, June 16, 2011
...of hope amidst the gloom of a troubled country. A Woman Among WarlordsAuthor: Malalai JoyaPublisher: Scribner, 239 pages MALALAI Joya was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People of 2010 and the BBC has called her the bravest woman in...
Milton Patch, May 2, 2011
...accomedate those who want to attend Town Meeting. This month’s selection is A Woman Among Warlords by Malalai Joya. 5. Milton Yoga opens : Milton Yoga, which is located at the Carriage House School, 777 Randolph Avenue, opens with classes today. For...
Guy Fawkes' blog, July 2, 2011
...Dylan Jones, editor of GQ , is telling people that Johann Hari was dropped from writing for the magazine because he concocted copy that mixed fact and fiction. You don’t say… Elsewhere more left-wing men of letters are breaking cover and saying...
The k2p blog, June 29, 2011
...ve said to him during his interviews. A typical example was his  2009 interview in the Independent with Malalai Joya , billed as “the bravest woman in Afghanistan” (hat tip  Brian Whelan ). Here’s an extract from the interview: I ask if she was...
Splintered Sunrise, June 28, 2011
...Which is not to say (and I’m trying to be scrupulously fair here) that Toni Negri or Malalai Joya might not have said something to Hari similar to what he quoted – he’d simply lifted his quotes from elsewhere because they evidently read better than...
A Radical Profeminist, June 2, 2011
...critique, or all of that together. Have you read the account of the US invasion in Afghanistan by Malalai Joya, who must change where she sleeps most nights to avoid being killed for speaking out against the male supremacists in her country and those...