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This article is an interesting addition for our study. It relates directly with "A Thousand Splendid Suns". In fact, the article even addresses the rein of the Taliban in Afghan, however briefly. It's no good news for women in Afghan. In fact, it basically talks about a law that was passed in 2009 in Afghan which puts even more restrictions on Shiite women and puts greater powers in the men. It also talks about the reaction of the rest of the world to this new law. In response to this article and for the rest of the group to think about - how are women to fight oppression when the government finds every possible way to keep women in a submissive and vulnerable place. If a woman is not even allowed to leave the house without the permission of her husband, how can she possibly hope to start an uprising against this injustice? Also, it's pretty interesting reading this article since you get to hear a little about how outsiders to Afghan are reacting to this. To be honest, all throughout "A Thousand Splendid Suns" I was practically screaming, "WHY IS NO ONE HELPING THESE WOMEN?!"

This video is a short documentary of a woman who went to Afghanistan to look for answers and to uncover and show to the world how women are being treated. It gives a face to those being oppressed.

includes crime novelist/journalist who teaches at UCSD historical fiction novelist

Laurel Corona as a possible contact?

Article series with multiple articles about oppression of women AND how they are overcoming it :)

Great spoken word!

One of the writers of Half the Sky

This 49 minute documentary discovered more then they ever expected. Shot secretly to find out how Afghanistan really is after the fall of the Taliban. As is the question I ask after I finished "A Thousand Splendid Suns". From the little I have watched on this documentary, I can only answer, not good.