HORROR
Second attack in Turkish port city this year kills five, wounds dozens
Fariba Nawa is a journalist and the author of just released Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan. She also authored the report Afghanistan, Inc., and is a contributing writer to Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands, to be published in spring 2012 by Harvard University Press. She writes for London’s Sunday Times Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications. She holds a master’s in Middle Eastern studies and journalism.
Taking A Stand
The sexes rarely interact at parties in my Afghan-American community—and I’ve had enough of the segregation.
Inshallah
Often thought of as hostile to homosexuality, some American Muslims celebrated Friday’s Supreme Court decision and chided their co-religionists who said judgment day was nigh.
COURAGE
A band of 30 Afghan women carried the body of murdered student Farkhunda through the streets of Kabul yesterday, defying the girl's murderers in order to give her a proper burial.
Barbarity
A mob of angry men said a mentally ill woman who they said burned a Quran in a mosque had to die for ‘honor.’ That is truly sick.
For women who were beaten and bartered in marriage and civilians deprived of freedom, the Taliban remains a threat, says Fariba Nawa.