Veiled Threat
In
Veiled Threat
, journalist Sally Armstrong describes women's struggle to survive in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power and dropped a veil over their bodies, voices, and lives. Armstrong introduces us to women like the remarkable Sima Samar--a doctor and activist who courageously subverted the edicts of the Taliban to open a medical clinic and set up clandestine schools for girls: "Once, the family of a woman who had been in labour for three days sent a message to Sima and begged her to come. She walked three hours to get there. On another occasion, she saddled up a horse and rode twelve hours over the steep, rock-strewn mountains to treat a child who was sick with pneumonia."
Accusing the Taliban and other fundamentalist regimes of distorting the teachings of the Koran for their own ideological purposes, Armstrong challenges the world's watchdogs to come to the aid of Afghan women. Her portrait is both a cautionary tale and a celebration of women carrying on under the most trying of circumstances.
--Carolyn Leitch
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9780143012818 |
| title: |
Veiled Threat |
| purchase date: |
09-09-2005 |
| publisher: |
Penguin |
| published: |
20-05-2003 |
| price: |
CDN$ 24.00 |
| pages: |
240 |
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Veiled Threat |
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CDN$ 11.32 |
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147986480 |
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ca |
| author: |
Armstrong Sally |
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Paperback |
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0143012819
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