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  1. Afghan Women's Writing Project: Be Thankful for Your Freedom

    11/24/10 2:52pm by AnonAWWP
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    Lily on Gravestone

    During my university years, I went for one academic year to the U.S. on a fellowship program. There, I felt how educational life is wonderful, how much freedom is worth and how my life was wasted. I was in the U.S. when Mom called me and begged me to return to Afghanistan. My cousin was putting pressure on my family, and my dad and brothers had beaten my mother. I returned because I felt devoted to my mom.  Read more >

  2. I Am for Sale, Who Will Buy Me? The Epilogue in Afghanistan

    8/2/10 9:53am by AnonAWWP
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    Afghan Women

    Editor’s note: This is a follow-up from the essay that ran in January, I Am For Sale, Who Will Buy Me?, by a writer who faced a forced marriage. Thanks to an outpouring of help from readers and others, she was able to match the bride price and buy her freedom. This is what her life has been like since then.  Read more >

  3. Because I Could Not Walk With My Feet, I Walked With My Hands

    3/16/10 6:00am by AnonAWWP
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    Women With Polio

    (Ed. Note: This essay is part of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project founded by novelist Masha Hamilton. Under the project, Afghan women write in secure online workshops taught by published American novelists, poets, memoirists, screenwriters and journalists. The strongest pieces are posted online on a blog. The AWWP is aimed at giving women a voice at a time when Afghanistan appears to be growing more conservative. The project encourages participants to claim their own stories and publishes them under their first names.)  Read more >

  4. Afghan Women's Writing Project: I Am for Sale, Who Will Buy Me?

    1/12/10 11:12am by AnonAWWP
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    (Ed. Note: This essay is part of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project founded by novelist Masha Hamilton. Under the project, Afghan women write in secure online workshops taught by published American novelists, poets, memoirists, screenwriters and journalists. The strongest pieces are posted online on a blog. The AWWP is aimed at giving women a voice at a time when Afghanistan appears to be growing more conservative. The project encourages participants to claim their own stories and publishes them under their first names. In very rare cases—and this is one—the writers, who are well-known to AWWP, feel they can only safely share beyond the project if they do so anonymously.)  Read more >

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