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Essays and Articles

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Personal Essays & Short Stories:

  • Letter to an Ex, on the Occasion of His Suicide
  • Saying Goodbye to Dad
  • The Comfort of Fingers Entwined
  • The Camel Library
  • A Mother's Trip to Afghanistan
  • God's Fingernail: A Story

Articles:

  • Lebanon: Today I am Going to Die
  • Lebanon: Drawing On the Memories of Syrian Women
  • South Sudan: Stop the Killing!
  • Rwandan Genocide: Two Days, Three Memorials
  • Ethiopia: Hungry Many Many Nights
  • Kenya: Amina Ali
  • Kenya: Street Kids
  • Somalia: Empowering Farmers
  • Afghanistan: Women Wed to Addiction
  • Afghanistan: Obamas Headache
  • Afghanistan: Fear in Kandahar
  • Afghanistan: The Sound of Music
  • Jerusalem: Season of Anger
  • Russia: Postcards from Moscow
A Mother's Trip To Afghanistan

PUBLISHED BY THE MOTHERS MOVEMENT


Some risks, once measured, are worth taking.

"My desire to go to Afghanistan was fueled by a longing to know, as much as possible, what it means to be an Afghan woman today . . . Occasionally I felt a jolt of fear as I prepared for the journey. So much was unknown, and so much of the news from there was bad."



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