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Malalai Joya

Malalai Joya

Malalai Joya, at only 30 years of age, has been called “the most famous woman in Afghanistan” and compared to democratic leaders such as Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi. Born in Afghanistan’s remote Farah Province, she grew up in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan before returning to Afghanistan as a social activist and a teacher at underground girls’ schools during the Taliban’s reign. In 2003 she was elected to Afghanistan’s constitutional assembly and, two years later, was the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament, a post from which she was suspended in 2007 for her regular denunciation of the country’s warlords and their cronies in... Read full bio

A Woman Among Warlords will be released on October 20, 2009 in Hardcover
Oct 20, 2009
A Woman Among Warlords is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 20, 2009
A Woman Among Warlords will be released on October 20, 2009 in eBook
Oct 20, 2009
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CounterPunch, February 12, 2010
...Larry Summers and the Jobless Recovery Financial Transaction Tax: Easy and Fun Money Tortured in the "Dark Prison" Malalai Joya Among Warlords Jayne Lyn Stahl How About a War Rebate? Advocating Sweatshops: NPR, NYT and Nick Kristof Report From...
Chronicle Herald, January 17, 2010
...book will go toward humanitarian projects in Afghanistan. Readers can stay in touch through the Defense Committee for Malalai Joya: . There will be free public film screenings of Rethink Afghanistan today, 3-5 p.m., at the Just Us Coffee Shop, 5896...
Globe and Mail, January 15, 2010
...region. A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice, by Malalai Joya with Derrick O'Keefe, Scribner, 229 pages, $32.99 A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her...
Georgia Straight, December 9, 2009
...ambitious dreamer Comments (23) 5. Women act against violence at Ecole Polytechnique massacre memorial event Comments (17) 6. Malalai Joya: Canada must withdraw troops from Afghanistan immediately Comments (10) 7. Vision Vancouver looks after businesses...
National Post, November 30, 2009
...editorial point of view; this bias upsets me,” wrote Derek Wilson. “But then you publish this article about Malalai Joya, the former female Afghan parliamentarian and activist, calling for the withdrawal of foreign military forces from her homeland....
Rabble.ca, November 27, 2009
...Malalai Joya wraps up her cross-Canada book tour in Ottawa Friday. Her tour started two weeks ago in Vancouver with a launch attended by about 1000 people at Saint Andrew's...
Mother Jones, November 23, 2009
...4:58 PM PST Malalai Joya has often been called the bravest woman in . Just 27 when she was elected in 2005, Joya has quickly become one of her country's fiercest critics. In print...
Sympatico, November 18, 2009
...is calling on Canada to withdraw its troops and step up humanitarian aid to the region. At 25, Malalai Joya was elected to the Afghan parliament, but was suspended in 2007 for criticizing the government. She has since survived four assassination...
CTV.ca, November 18, 2009
...is calling on Canada to withdraw its troops and step up humanitarian aid to the region. At 25, Malalai Joya was elected to the Afghan parliament, but was suspended in 2007 for criticizing the government. She has since survived four assassination...
Bellaciao, November 10, 2009
...including Joyas thoughts on this weeks elections and whether or not there should be negotiations with moderate Taliban. Malalai Joya is Afghanistans youngest member of Parliament, well-known for openly challenging the US/NATO, warlords, and the Taliban....
NPR, October 27, 2009
...Three days after Malalai Joya was born in Afghanistan, the government was overthrown. In A Woman Among Warlords, Joya tells the story of her family's struggle against Islamic fundamentalists, warlords and foreign occupation...
Rabble.ca, September 21, 2009
...I trust that readers are aware of Malalai Joya's recently-released autobiography entitled Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out. The North American version will be published in October under...
Guardian Unlimited, August 14, 2009
...Spark John Shirley on a testosterone-fuelled account of combat in the Middle East Review: Raising my voice by Malalai Joya Jonathan Steele wonders if an Afghan activist can find common political cause Review: The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Andrew...
Irish Times, August 10, 2009
...BOOK OF THE DAY: Raising My Voice By Malalai Joya Rider, £11.99, 278pp TALES OF misery from behind the veil have been in great demand since September 11th, 2001. Honour killings, forced marriages and the subjugation of women...
Morning Star Online, August 7, 2009
...Afghanistan is at hand, says the satirical Gordon Brown. On the BBC's Newsnight, the heroic Afghan MP Malalai Joya tries, in her limited English, to tell the British public that her people are being blown to bits in their name - 140 villagers, mostly...
Business Standard India, August 2, 2009
...to remember. Delivered in late 2003 by a young Afghan social activist and newbie politician under the alias Malalai Joya (for security reasons), the 90 seconds she was given to speak rattled her country. The setting was a historic Loya Jirga (political...
The Independent, July 23, 2009
...It is a year since I last saw Malalai Joya. She was at Stansted airport preparing to return to Afghanistan: a tiny figure clutching a large holdall and a gold-coloured trophy. It was the Anna Politkovskaya Award for human...
The Independent, July 22, 2009
...It is a year since I last saw Malalai Joya. She was at Stansted airport preparing to return to Afghanistan: a tiny figure clutching a large holdall and a gold-coloured trophy. It was the Anna Politkovskaya Award for human...
The Independent, July 22, 2009
...It is a year since I last saw Malalai Joya. She was at Stansted airport preparing to return to Afghanistan: a tiny figure clutching a large holdall and a gold-coloured trophy. It was the Anna Politkovskaya Award for human...
WA Today.com.au, July 6, 2009
...Malalai Joya has been through, and seen, a lot. At 31, she has lived many lives. Persecuted under the oppressive Taliban regime that ruled her native Afghanistan, she was seemingly the...
Newsline.com.pk, June 15, 2009
...Lawrence of Arabia, to Meena Keshwar Kamal, the martyred founder of the Revolutionary Afghan Womens Association (RAWA) and Malalai Joya, the Afghan legislator who faced up to corrupt Afghan warlords in post-occupation Afghanistan and has been forced into...
Kanan48, January 5, 2010
...Voice . A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice , by Malalai Joya, with Derrick O’Keefe. Scribner, 2009. Afghan social activist and writer Malalai Joya is the voice of another, hidden Afghanistan –...
Corrente, January 3, 2010
...of defending our loved ones, but for a war of choice, profit, and aggression for the wealthy few. Malalai Joya on the war crime against Afghanistan and resistance to it The U.S. war in Afghanistan, Joya writes, "is a continuation of a war crime against...
a peace of conflict, December 14, 2009
...Western attestations that the Afghan people have self-selected leadership, real Afghani’s describe the situation in other words. Malalai Joya is an outspoken female politician from Afghanistan, a feat rare enough in itself, but also compounded by...
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories, December 8, 2009
...New Republic, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Glamour, and many other publications. X Close Women of Influence: Malalai Joya by Michelle Goldberg Info Michelle Goldberg is the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex,...
small dead animals, November 16, 2009
..."Considering that Malalai Joya, rabble.ca, stopwar.ca, and Simon & Schuster have a book to sell" More here about "The Latest Poster Girl For Dizzy, Bourgeois Vanity." Posted by Mark at...
Creekside, November 12, 2009
...Afghan parliament in 2007 for speaking out against the warlords and drug traffickers who comprise Afghanistan's government, Malalai Joya, elected on a platform of womens rights, now lives like a fugitive in her own country. What does that tell you? ....
Reverbiage: Stories from NPR, October 27, 2009
...World > Afghanistan E-mail Share Comments Print Facebook Stumble Upon Reddit Twitter Digg What is this? Share   Malalai Joya: 'A Woman Among Warlords' October 27, 2009 Listen to the Story Talk of the Nation [14 min 26 sec] Add to Playlist Download...
Index on Censorship, September 25, 2009
...anniversary of Anna’s murder, Natalia presented the Anna Politkovskaya Award to the brave young parliamentarian from Afghanistan, Malalai Joya, with the words: “Malalai be brave”. On 6 October at Kings Place, London the third Anna Politkovskaya...
New Statesman, August 13, 2009
...Culture Books Life & Society World Affairs Columns Blogs Return to: Home | Books Raising My Voice By Malalai Joya...
Palestinian Pundit, August 7, 2009
...Afghanistan is at hand, says the satirical Gordon Brown. On the BBC's Newsnight, the heroic Afghan MP Malalai Joya, tries, in her limited English, to tell the British public that her people are being blown to bits in their name: 140 villagers, mostly...
Mick Hartley, April 26, 2009
...was shot dead, and two weeks ago a female-rights activist was murdered in broad daylight outside her house. Malalai Joya, a young woman MP who criticised warlords, was suspended from parliament and now lives in hiding, protected by five gunmen. Last...