The Daily Beast discovered Bibi Aisha at a Kabul shelter, horribly disfigured by her Talib in-laws. Jane Spencer reports on how she became a political symbol—and the surgery to heal the damage.
Jane Spencer is a former Executive Editor of The Daily Beast and was one of the founding editors of the site. Previously, she was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and New York. She was part of a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for coverage of China's “naked capitalism" and the adverse consequences of the economic boom.