Outspoken
eBook - ePub

Outspoken

My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Outspoken

My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

About this book

Sima Samar has been fighting for justice all her life. Born into a polygamous family, Samar agreed to an arranged marriage to continue her own education. Once she had qualified as a doctor, she took off into rural areas – on horse, donkey, even on foot – to treat people who had never received medical help before. As the situation worsened, Samar found herself working in increasingly adverse circumstances, and in grave personal danger.

After Samar's husband was disappeared by the regime, she faced a choice: to accept the injustices she saw around her or to keep driving for a better Afghanistan. From selling her own hand embroidered bed quilt to pay for her degree, to becoming Vice President in an office with no heating and only beach chairs, Samar has worked tirelessly for human rights in Afghanistan – the worst country in the world to be a woman.

In Outspoken, Samar writes unapologetically and unflinchingly about the colossal internal and international political failures that have engulfed Afghanistan over the past five decades – the corruption, tribal tensions and hijacking of religion. But it is also a powerful story of loyalty, diplomacy and integrity; a vision for a brighter dawn.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Map
  6. Prologue by Sally Armstrong
  7. One: Eyewitness
  8. Two: Girl Child
  9. Three: Storm Warnings
  10. Four: The Doctor is in
  11. Five: A Fundamental Threat
  12. Six: Accused
  13. Seven: No Peace without Justice
  14. Eight: They Thought they could Bury Us
  15. Nine: Trump and The Taliban
  16. Ten: The Ides of August
  17. Eleven: Getting to Next
  18. Illustrations
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Index