Nelofer Pazira's Books
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A Bed of Red FlowersWritten with compassion, intelligence, and insight, A Bed of Red Flowers is a profoundly moving portrait of life under occupation and the unforgettable...Read More
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Picton County Weekly, January 24, 2013
...is the next topic for the History Nights at the Regent Theatre lecture series. Afghan author and journalist Nelofer Pazira will speak at the theatre in downtown Picton Feb. 4 at 7 pm.. She fled Afghanistan in the 1980s and now lives in Toronto....
Irish Times, June 3, 2013
...In her memoir A Bed of Red Flowers: In of My Afghanistan, writer and director Nelofer Pazira recounts her shock the first time someone took her aside to berate her about her choice of clothing. She was a teenager: it was the spring of 1989, 10...
CBC Ottawa, May 1, 2013
...Fifty-four-year-old Emtthal Ibrahim was shot dead at two o'clock on a Monday afternoon. A single bullet hit her as she sat inside her chauffeur-driven car near Harasta, just east of Damascus. It was probably a sniper lying in wait. A member of the...
Common Dreams, August 23, 2012
...discovered that Aleppo was not Jerusalem. Damage at the gate of Citadel in Aleppo August 22, 2012 by Nelofer Pazira The outer gate of Citadel in Aleppo as it looked in 2008...
