Building Bridges: Malalai Joya - an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out - 28:17
written by building bridges radio
at Tuesday, October 29, 2013
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of
an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out
with
Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya, is an extraordinary young woman who helped
establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home
province of Farah; and a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan. She became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament, but
in 2007 was suspended for her persistent criticism of the warlords, drug
barons and their cronies. She has
survived four assassination attempts and now sleeps only
in safe houses, accompanied at all times by armed
guards. Malalai takes us inside her important and insufficiently understood
country, explaining the desperate day-to-day situations its remarkable people face
at every turn, and recounts some of the many acts of rebellion that are
helping to change it. A controversial political figure in one of the most
dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a woman of tremendous grit and
determination, a sheroe in the struggle for self-determination, for peace and justice.
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