March 12, 2010 - TakePart.com:
“In Celebration of Anne Frank: Youth Share Their Stories” by Jenny Inglee
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March 9, 2010 - Screen Actors Guild:
“Event Builds Awareness of Female Persecution in Afghanistan”
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March 9, 2010 - American Chronicle:
“International Women’s Day and the Quest for Opportunity, Education, and Acceptance” by William Lambers
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March 8, 2010 - MyFoxLA.com:
“Out of Silence: Readings from the Afghan Women’s Writing Project” by Tricia Tagasuki
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March 2, 2010 – Huffington Post:
“Afghan Women on International Women’s Day” by Deborah Calla
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February 23, 2010
The AWWP is very proud to announce that AWWP participant Freshta is one of four women bloggers who have been awarded the Second Annual International Activist BlogHer Scholarship. As part of the scholarship, Freshta will present selected pieces of her work this summer in New York City before other international bloggers. For more information on the event, please visit:
http://www.blogher.com/announcing-blogher-09-international-activist-blogher-scholarship
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February 13, 2010 – La Stampa:
The Garden of My Homeland (Clothed in Blood and Fear) by Sabira, translated into Italian by Davide Galati.
La Stampa is following AWWP and will probably translate more of our stories and poems.
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February 3, 2010 – save the date!
Please save Monday, May 24 for An Evening of Afghan Women’s Voices: Washington, D.C.’s Theater J will sponsor a reading of our Afghan Women’s Writing Project essays and poems, as part of their spring festival:
VOICES FROM A CHANGING MIDDLE EAST
2009-2010 : VOICE OF THE WOMAN
Tickets: $10. Details to follow.
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January 3, 2010 - Los Angeles Times (op-ed):
“I Am for Sale” by Masha Hamilton
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December 6, 2009 – Al Jazeera:
“Afghan Women Writing for Change” by Andrew Wander
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