Parwana
Subtitle: the changing role of Afghan women
By: Katherine Kiviat and Scott Heidler ; photographs by Katherine Kiviat.
Contributors: Heidler, Scott.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Layton, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781423602538
Subjects: Women -- Afghanistan -- Interviews; Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions; Women -- Afghanistan -- Pictorial works
Genres: Interviews.; Pictorial works.
Description: Women of Courage shares an intimate look at the inspiring women who are forging a new future in Afghanistan and playing a crucial role in the changing landscape of this turbulent nation. First-hand stories and experiences are shared in conversations with a wide array of women-from a beekeeper to a presidential candidate to an Olympic sprinter to a schoolteacher. Mesmerizing photographs accompany unfiltered interviews, giving voice to a culture of women that has been silenced for decades under the oppressive regime of the Taliban.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Huria Hessary, midwife trainer; title: General Khatool Muhammad Zai, Afghan army paratrooper; title: Homaira Habib, radio journalist; title: Shagoofa Sahar, host of Good Morning Afghanistan radio; title: Freeshta Sadat, abused wife; title: Jamila Mujahad, TV journalist; title: Lailama Nabizada, Afghan National Army helicopter pilot; title: Zahra Mohammadi, divorce; title: Shaima Aminy, burn unit nurse at Herat Hospital; title: Suhila Fanoos, Welayet Women's Prison guard in central Kabul; title: Suraya Parlika, executive director, All Afghan Women's Union; title: Fareshta Kohistani, United Nations photographer; title: Farzana Wahidy, photojournalist; title: Mahjan, housewife; title: Azima Nabi, teacher and mother of six; title: Aziza Nazari, police general, human rights department; title: Marina Gulbahari, actress; title: Massuda Jalal, former Minister of Women's Affairs/presidential candidate; title: Nadera, bread maker; title: Roshan Gul, bee keeper; title: Shaharzad Akbar, Kabul university student; title: Friba Razayee, Afghan judo olympian; title: Naheed Mirza, police academy graduate; title: Mahmoda Hoseini, female mullah; title: Hamida Jan, actress/refugee; title: Robina Moqimyar, Afghan olympic sprinter; title: Parwana Ghezel, Ariana Afghan Airlines flight attendant; title: Shaima Razayee, host, Hop Music TV program; title: Mariza Tamaski, supermarket saleswoman; title: Fatema Kamazemyan, head of Women's Affairs Office in Bamiyan; title: Malalai Kakar, criminal investigator in Kandahar; title: Abeershah, fortune teller; title: Shaima Rahmany, filmmaker; title: Zubaida Akbar, journalist; title: Safia Amma Jan, head of Women's Affairs Office in Kandahar; title: Shazia Saba, office manager Bamiyan DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration); title: Pashtoon Shahna, girls' high school principal; title: Hanifa Jamizada, presidential election worker; title: Mahgul, handicraft worker; title: Miriam Farooq, language teacher/former underground teacher.