Now my younger sisters will not be forced to marry a man who sees women only as feeble-minded, second-class citizens or weak members of society.

I have wanted to go to South Africa ever since reading about Nelson Mandela’s hard work for peace and his anti apartheid movement.

When we would go outside to the trees every evening to gather almonds and walnuts, she recited Hafiz’s poems along the way and I walked by her side.