Synopsis:
This book should be required reading for all young girls and women around the world. It is a real page turner, and details the life and times of a heroic, intelligent young woman who worked selflessly under the most difficult of conditions for the poor, the oppressed, the refugee and the voiceless in Afghanistan.
She was brutally murdered for her work at age 30. The book also details the extreme cruelty of the Taliban, the Northern Alliance and even recent problems and issues in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. It explains how cruel, fascist, despotic leaders and warlords came to power and the utter helplessness of those that do the most good, the women, because the US government only likes and respects a war machine, still the current policy of the Bush regime at the US government. While millions were given to Osamma Bin Laden and the Northern Alliance, Rawa, the harbinger of feminism, democracy, free speech, etc., went penniless.
Sahar Saba is a spokeswoman for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Serving on RAWA’s foreign affairs committee, Saba has traveled to many countries in the past several years to speak on behalf of Afghan women. Saba was born in Kabul; in 1979, her family fled Afghanistan to the refugee camps in Pakistan to escape the Soviet invasion, and she was educated at one of RAWA’s underground schools.
