Title The favored daughter : one woman's fight to lead Afghanistan into the future / Fawzia Koofi with Nadene Gourhi.

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[Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2013.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	CD BOOK BIOG KOOFI, FAWZIA	Check Shelf

Edition	Library ed.
Description	9 audio discs (10.50 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note	Unabridged.
	Compact discs.
Performer	Narrator: Emily Durante.
Summary	The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, the author was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her life, she rose above her fate to becoming the first Afghani woman Parliament speaker. Here, she shares her story, punctuated by a series of letters she wrote to her two daughters before each political trip, letters describing the future and freedoms she dreamed of for them and for all the women of Afghanistan. Today, shei is one of the most outspoken critics of human rights violations against Afghani women and children and uses her influence to bring global attention to the situation on the ground in Afghanistan, even as a frustrated American military considers relinquishing it to the Taliban. Her story captures the political and cultural moment in Afghanistan, a country caught between the hope of progress and the bitterness of history.
Note	GMD: sound recording.
Subject	Koofi, Fawzia, 1975-
	Women legislators -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
	Legislators -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
	Women -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
	Afghanistan. Ūlasī Jirgah -- Biography.
	Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
	Children -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
	Women's rights -- Afghanistan.
	Human rights -- Afghanistan.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. -- Women.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE. -- Human Rights.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. -- General.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE. -- General.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. -- Personal Memoirs.
	Koofi, Fawzia, 1975- (OCoLC)fst01914715
	Afghanistan. Ūlasī Jirgah. (OCoLC)fst01637530
	Children -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00855145
	Human rights. (OCoLC)fst00963285
	Legislators. (OCoLC)fst00995828
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Women legislators. (OCoLC)fst01178102
	Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
	Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
	Afghanistan. (OCoLC)fst01205406
Genre/Form	Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
	Audiobooks.
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Author	Ghouri, Nadene, 1975- Author.
	Durante, Emily. Narrator.
	Tantor Media.
ISBN	9781452642888
	1452642885

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