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• My Heart Hurts
• It Is a Frightening Life in a Violent Patriarchal Society 
• For Rukhshana!
• Educating Afghan Girls Who Dream Big Dreams
• The Short Life of Khadija Who Was Forced to Marry
• Many Sides to Gender Violence in Afghanistan
• No Honor in Honor Killing
• Girls Walking Home
• Welcome My Baby
• For Rukhshana
• We Are Human
• Seized Birds
• Four Brothers Sell Their Sister for $20,000
• Change for Mariam, Change for Women
• My Tired Voice Grows Loud
• Afghan Women Writers Join the Twitter #GBVTeachin for #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
• Everyone’s House
• Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

2014 Afghan Elections Project

• A Reminder of the Last Afghan Elections
• Elections: My Point of View
• Registering Voters in the Northern Villages
• Candidates Make Promises for Women’s Vote
• Paying the Price for Democracy in Afghanistan
• 2014 Afghan Elections Project
• Oral Stories Project: Voting to Make a Bright Future for My Children
• Oral Stories Project: We All Fear for the Future of Afghanistan
• Oral Stories Project: Taliban Made Many Widows in Afghanistan
• Oral Stories Project: Nothing Will Stop Me from Voting
• Oral Stories Project: President Must Think About the Mothers
• Oral Stories Project: I Pray to Allah the Best Man Wins
• Oral Stories Project: Taliban Is Not Our Enemy
• Oral Stories Project: Bring Peace and Jobs Please
• How Elections Use Quotas for Women
• The Candidate from Kandahar
• Who Can Win? What the Campaign Slogans Don’t Say
• What I Expect from My New President
• Every Election Brings New Hurdles in Afghanistan
• Change Starts Here
• Defining the Women’s Vote in Afghanistan
• The Blank Vote
• When the Birds Sang of Freedom
• On a Sleepless Night I Dream of Peace
• Making Voting a Family Affair
• Waking Up to Election Day in Afghanistan
• The Violence Lifted from My Shoulders When I Voted
• Spring Had a Nice Feel after Voting
• Fear
• The Runoff Election Can Change Our Lives
• Afghan Runoff Election
• Will Disillusioned Afghans Vote a Second Time?
• Meet the Two Men Who Want to Be President
• Afghanistan: Between Fears and Hopes
• In Search of a Champion
• Will Promises Come True?
• Anxiety Builds as Votes Are Counted
• Waiting for the Recount
• Voters’ Fears Lift after Kerry’s Visit
• Who Will Be President?
• Girls Like Me Want Elections Finished
• We Need National Unity
• In One Nation Two Can Lead
• Dear Mr. President
• Hello My Dear President
• In One Nation Two Can Lead
• Dividing the Power for Unity
• Behind the Mottos an Identity

AWWP News

• Al Jazeera: Afghan Women Writing for Change
• Los Angeles Times: I Am For Sale
• AWWP Event: An Evening of Afghan Women’s Voices
• La Stampa: translation into Italian of Sabira’s poem
• AWWP’s Freshta Awarded BlogHer Scholarship
• Huffington Post: Afghan Women on International Women’s Day
• video: Out of Silence: Readings from the Afghan Women’s Writing Project
• Screen Actors Guild: Event Builds Awareness of Female Persecution in Afghanistan
• American Chronicle: International Women’s Day and the Quest for Opportunity, Education, and Acceptance
• TakePart.com: In Celebration of Anne Frank: Youth Share Their Stories
• Welcome to the new AWWP website
• Twelve readings added to Out of Silence event page
• Video compilation of Out of Silence evening
• Photo Album
• Feature on AWWP by US State Department
• Remember Ashton, Help Afghan Women
• Website of the Week: The AWWP
• July 20, 2010: La Repubblica
• July 30, 2010: Época
• August 1, 2010: Delaware State News
• August 10, 2010: The Writer Magazine
• AWWP Recognized by New York Human Rights Law
• Afghan Women’s Writing Project Loosens the Gag
• AWWP Reading in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on Sept. 30th
• Sept. 29, 2010 : Globalshift.org
• Sharni to take the Couch to 5km challenge with $$ raised to AWWP
• Goffstown AWWP reading articles
• Nov. 17, 2010: Le Devoir (Montreal)
• Dec. 13, 2010 – Boxing the Octopus
• Dec. 14, 2010 – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
• Dec. 17, 2010 – Skywriter (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)
• Afghan Women’s Writing Project Skype Chats
• Jan. 4, 2011 – Wanderlust
• AWWP Living Room Fundraisers in February
• What’s Your Advice for Afghan Women, Hillary Clinton?
• Site launch: AWWP Presents
• March 8, 2011 – The News, Mexico City
• March 9, 2011 – Women’s National Book Award Advisory
• March 20, 2011 — Huffington Post
• March 23, 2011 – Europa (Italy)
• March 25, 2011 – Style Substance Soul
• March 31, 2011 – Lake Oswego Review (Oregon)
• Masha Hamilton on WBZ Radio
• April 11, 2011 – Arizona State University
• April 13, 2011 – Melissa Pritchard wins ASU Faculty Achievement Award
• April 24, 2011 – Westchester poet Pamela Hart mentors Afghan women writers
• May 9, 2011 – A Traveler’s Library
• May 2011 – Sampsonia Way
• May 13, 2011 – Blog Talk Radio
• Writers meet at the AWWP Internet café
• Afghanistan stories: Written at risk, edited with care
• “Out of Silence” video at Arizona State University, May 3, 2011
• June 6, 2011 – UC San Diego News Center
• June 8, 2011 – La Jolla Light
• TrustLaw poll: Afghanistan is most dangerous country for women
• Join the Freedom to Tell Your Story Campaign
• AWWP Reading in Davenport, Iowa – Friday, August 26
• September 6, 2011 – New York Times, International Herald Tribune
• September 9, 2011 – The Fresh Outlook
• AWWP Writer Speaks on Vermont Public Radio
• Masha Hamilton interviewed for Worldview, WBEZ, Chicago
• AWWP Donation Gift Cards for Download
• AWWP Performances on Jan. 21 & 22 in Brooklyn, NY
• Comedians of New York Rehearsal
• Jan. 20, 2012 — Capital New York story on AWWP
• AWWP performances in Cincinnati, March 8-10, 2012
• AWWP Reading in Chicago on Monday, March 12
• International Women’s Day
• AWWP featured on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Here on Earth”
• AWWP Event in Chicago on Wednesday, March 14
• Celebrating Nowruz with Our Writers
• Hosting a Living Room Fundraiser
• AWWP Featured on KSDS, San Diego
• Daughters of Afghanistan: Literary Voices of Change
• Afghanistan’s New Writers, in the Wilson Quarterly
• Middlebury Magazine (Vermont), Spring 2012
• Spanish translations of AWWP stories and poems
• An American in Istanbul
• What a Whirlwind Year!
• Through Writing, Afghan Women Find Freedom
• Restoring Dignity: Afghanistan in Kyoto Journal
• AWWP at the AWP Conference in Boston—March 7, 2013
• Huffington Post, February 26, 2013
• Mercury News (California), March 10, 2013
• Salem (Massachusetts) Gazette, March 14, 2013
• Writers in the Schools Blog, March 21, 2013
• Wilson Quarterly Winter 2013: Afghanistan in Three Voices
• Unbridled Books Donates Portion of Sales to AWWP
• The Humanist, March-April 2013
• Huffington Post, May 2, 2013
• Teenage Girls in Afghanistan Tell of School Bombs and Harry Potter in Online Magazine
• To Be Free Like Malala: The Dreams and Fears of Afghanistan’s Teen Girls
• Illiterate Afghan Women Share Hopes for Children and Grandchildren
• Christian Science Monitor: Afghan women write powerful poetry – even amid war
• The Girl Who Spoke to Flowers: The Stories and Dreams of Afghan Girl Writers
• Ending Child Marriage
• AWWP Poem Published on Women, Words and Wisdom
• Afghan Writers Profile Afghanistan’s Business Women
• Truthdig: Afghan Women Risk Lives to Write Poems
• AWWP Mentioned on BBC World Service
• AWWP’s Stacy Le Melle on Huffington Post
• AWWP Celebrates UN’s International Day of the Girl
• The Girls of Our Wildest Imagination
• AWWP Included in BBC World Service Report
• AWWP Profiled on George W. Bush Institute Website
• Voice of America Dari
• AWWP Essay Published on PEN.org
• AWWP Stories and Poems Published on Muslima
• Oral Stories Project 4: Love and Forgiveness (Nov. 2013)
• The WVoice (Women’s Voices Now)
• AWWP Interview on Delphi Quarterly
• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
• AWWP’s Stacy Le Melle on Empower Media
• AWWP Article on Women’s World Wide Web
• AWWP Mentor Mary Weider on Empower Media
• Readings from AWWP Featuring Masha Hamilton
• 13 Reasons to Donate to AWWP in 2013
• AWWP Contributor Aysha on InterestEng.org
• Afghan Women’s Writing to Be Discussed
• Review of AWWP Reading in Queens, New York
• Another Review of AWWP Reading in Queens, NY
• Afghan Girls Speak Their Minds Through Poetry
• Love, Forgiveness, and Pens with Blue Wings: A Curriculum
• AWWP Writing Reprinted in Tethered By Letters
• International Women’s Day, March 8 2014
• The Indomitable Spirit of Afghan Women Writers
• AWWP Reading in Ridgewood, NJ on April 7th
• Bring LA and Kabul Together in Poetry and Song
• Afghan Teens Speak Out, May 2014
• Afghan Runoff Election
• Oral Stories Project 5: Maternity and Childbirth in Afghanistan (July 2014)
• Oral Stories Project 6: Ramadan (July 2014)
• Teenage Writers Workshop, September 2014
• 2000 Tales Told in Poetry and Prose
• International Day of the Girl 2014
• Two Essays Chosen for UN’s International Day of the Girl
• AWWP Reading in New York on Monday, October 20
• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
• AWWP Event in Brooklyn on December 5, 2014
• Winter in Afghanistan
• AWWP Event in Arlington, VA, on March 20, 2015
• Masha Hamilton: Amplifying the Voices of Afghan Women
• Her Force Lives On: Afghan Women Bear Witness to Farkhunda’s Murder with Poetry
• When Silence Is Not An Option: AWWP Writers Inspire at Nassau Community College in New York
• 2015 Campaign for AWWP
• Mother’s Day 2015
• Afghan Women’s Poetry and Visual Art Event at the Corcoran in Washington, DC
• An AWWP First! Please Support Our Campaign
• Our Second Anthology Has Arrived!
• The Afghan Women’s Writing Project Anthology Is Beautiful, Brave, and Inspiring All at Once
• Breaking Taboos With Our Pens: Afghan Women Shine in New Anthology
• Opening Hearts Full of Stories (Lake Oswego Review, Oregon)
• Oral Stories Project 10: Women Under Burqa Talk About Women’s Rights
• Remembering AWWP Mentor Gabrielle Burton
• International Day of the Girl Child 2015
• International Day of the Girl Child 2015
• Brooklyn Students Collaborate with AWWP Poets for Night of Song!
• Oh What a Night! Thanking All Who Made Our NYC Musical Benefit a Roaring Success
• A Great Night in NYC Celebrating AWWP Writers!
• Afghan Women Writers Join the Twitter #GBVTeachin for #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
• American Singer-Songwriter and Afghan Poet Debut New Song on January 29th in New York City!
• AWWP Poet to Make Guest Appearance at Michigan Poetry Slam
• AWWP’s Hajar and Eleanor Dubinsky Shine with Their New Song “The Station”
• Join Us for Art of the Burqa on March 6th in New York City!
• Celebrate #IWD2016 with Afghan Women’s Poetry, Music, Art, and Food in Washington, DC!
• Reviews Are In: The AWWP Anthology is “Beautiful, Brave, and Inspiring All at Once”!
• Join Us for an AWWP Benefit Screening of Acclaimed Documentary FRAME BY FRAME in Tucson, Arizona on April 9th!
• Sharing My Heart’s Sound: Afghan Writers Praise AWWP
• Honor the Mothers in Your Life & Support Afghan Women Writers!
• AWWP Writers Create Powerful Videos with StoryCenter’s Silence Speaks
• Two Sisters, One Floor Apart, Play Dead and Survive AUAF Attack
• International Women’s Day 2017
• Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

AWWP Workshops

• Our Writers Celebrate Nowruz, from the AWWP Workshops

Afsana

• Martyr Farkhunda
• Afsana introduction
• Reza Gul, an Innocent Bird in a Violent Marriage
• Snow Brings Hope, But Storms Are Perilous in the Mountains

Afsana S.

• :می خواست با شوهرم عروسی کند، برایش گفتم او زن دارد

Aida S.

• On Your Own Alone
• Aida S. introduction
• Why Afghan Girls Give up on School
• Our Black and White TV
• Girl of War
• Girl of War
• One of the Lucky Girls
• Saddened by the Taliban, Bombings, and Now an Earthquake
• Residents Fled When Taliban Attacked

Aisha K.

• Like a Pomegranate

Alaha

• The Blood of Afghans Cry and Mourn

Alia

• Explosions at School
• Alia bio
• Afghanistan, My Love and My Pain
• I Prepare to Die as the Taliban Attacks AUAF

Amina

• Two Boys and Their Mother
• Dispense with Animosity

Angela

• Colorful Days after Black Nights
• Shining Star
• A Hard Decision
• Allah
• Ship of Dreams
• My Life
• Beyond My Comfort Zone
• A Full Life

Anisa

• My World

Anonymous

• Being a Woman: My Only Sin
• I Am For Sale, Who Will Buy Me?
• I Am Afraid
• Life in a Talib-held Province
• I Am For Sale, Part II
• A Grave for My Dreams
• A Hope in the Unseen
• A Pretty Toy in My Family’s Hands
• I Saw Taliban Near Kabul
• The Naamah’ram Downstairs
• Everything Is Smiling but My Soul
• I Will Not Give Up
• Revenge Marriage
• Ministry Officials Say “Women a Source of Distraction”
• God! If You Were an Afghan Woman
• Our Future
• Warlord Candidate
• Dinner at 7
• Paying the Price for Democracy in Afghanistan
• What Is Regret ?
• Meet the Two Men Who Want to Be President
• A Glass of Wine
• The High Price of Freedom of Speech
• I Am Charlie
• A Young Writer Escapes from a Forced Marriage 
• She Thirsts for Eid: One Girl’s Story
• A New Mullah Who Will Bring No Peace
• The Girl Who Got to Be a Teacher
• Violence at Home: The Worst Day of My Life
• The Grit of a Woman Boss
• The Mother-in-Law Problem

Arezoo

• The Kindergarten Teacher’s Story
• Arezoo introduction

Arezu

• Sabzina Studies Secretly at Night for University Degree
• The Girl with Almond Eyes Who Knew All the Answers
• For 2016
• Winter Has Two Faces

Arezu R.

• A Traditional Marriage Takes a Different Turn
• Arezu R. introduction
• Bamiyan at Its Most Beautiful 
• Without Basic Care, a Toothache Becomes a Deformity

Arifa

• Why Do You Cry?
• The Blue Cage
• Marrying Young in Afghanistan
• Hope Is Alive Again
• Victim of Tradition
• An Afghan Girl Dreams of Books
• The Last Letter
• She Cries in Her Heart
• Breaking the Barriers: Fatima, Mahtab & Feroza
• I Don’t Want to Be Thirteen and Go with That Old Man
• Sold Three Daughters, Got a Car
• We Do Not Deny That Water Boils at 100 Degrees, Yet We Deny Our Humanity
• A Five Kilometer Walk to School
• One Floor from My Sister, Waiting to Die

Arifa H.

• Mom’s Hands
• Arifa H. introduction
• Please Be Silent, the Girl Said
• Rethinking a Wedding Tradition
• Explosion
• Women Working Alongside Men in India
• Walking Woman
• Tears and Joys of an Afghan Schoolgirl
• Ghazni, Land of the Kings

Asma

• What Did That Guy Mean to Afghans? Nothing!
• My Mother Gave Me Independence
• Two Wings to Fly
• Why Afghan Women Hide Their Beauty
• An Evening Prayer
• The Cinema, My Mother’s Dream
• How Many Children Is a Woman’s Right
• There Is a Path Even to the Tallest Mountain
• Afghan Women Should Expand Career Opportunities
• Loya Jirga Vote Signals a Brighter Future
• Long List of Men Running For President, But No Women
• “In Each Action There Is a Blessing…”
• Peace in the Home
• Wishes for a Daughter
• Where I Live
• The Nowruz Holiday Is a Family Day
• Every Election Brings New Hurdles in Afghanistan
• Inside Burqa
• Badakhshan
• Will Disillusioned Afghans Vote a Second Time?
• The Voice of Rain
• Ramadan Mubarak
• Waiting for the Recount
• Feeling Better after Diplomatic Visit
• Debating the News
• Election’s Over, Time to Talk Peace
• No Arrests Made in Journalist Killings
• President’s Wife Must Be More Than a Symbol
• Afghan Girls, Then and Now
• How Culture Leads to Gender Violence
• For Peshawar
• Summer Break in the Afghan Winter
• Winter Reverie
• Freedom Is an Attitude
• Welcoming Spring
• Everyday Terror
• My Valuable Jewel
• To My Mother

Asma M.

• Burqa
• A Girl in Boy’s Clothes
• Afghan Girls Struggle with Wrong Traditions

Ayesha R.

• Differences
• Ayesha R. introduction

Aysha

• We Won! An International Football Victory Feels Like Peace
• Aysha introduction
• A Meaningful Conversation
• Proud to Be an Afghan Girl
• Why?
• My Voting Card
• The Blooming Rose
• In Afghanistan, the Rules Are Twisted
• 2014
• The Legends
• Can I?
• Because We Are Women
• Change Starts Here
• Street Boys Helping Landslide Victims
• I Am Asking You
• It’s a Jungle
• Black
• The Women’s Bazaar
• A Buried Story
• All That an Afghan Girl Needs
• Do You See What I See 
• Kabul Today Is a City of Uncertainty

B. Fatima A.

• My Election Day
• My Home Province
• News Trip
• A Line of Fathers
• Fatima, Victim of Caprice
• I Am From…
• Farzana
• I Am Glad…
• Evening With Friends
• A Family Matter, Part I
• A Family Matter, Part II
• Looking out the Window
• B. Fatima A. introduction

Balquis

• Angel in a Girl’s Life
• Balquis introduction
• Afghan Star Show Enriches Our Lives
• With You, Without You
• Shelter Me
• In My Burqa Prison
• !بهار زیبا خوش آمدی
• …برادرم می گفت: دوچرخه سواری نکن، آبروی من می ریزد

Bamiyan writers

• Thoughts from the Bamiyan Workshop: Gender Discrimination

Barbara Fischkin

• Seeta on Long Island

Basbibi

• A Little Wind
• Tears from the Abaseen
• Cow Nation

Basira

• Women, Look in the Mirror
• The Marriage Tradeoff
• Tahera’s Story
• Will Promises Come True?
• Basira introduction
• Mistake
• The Man Who Thought I Was Weak

Beheshta

• We Need National Unity
• Beheshta introduction
• The Breeze
• My Society Looks Like Jail to Me
• Winter Flight
• A Dream
• The Lost Wallet
• No Tears
• The Day the Houses Were Destroyed in Afghanistan
• Let Us Try Peace
• The Spring Changed to Fall

Campaign for Love and Forgiveness

• Bittersweetness
• Campaign for Love and Forgiveness
• Small Heart
• Teaching of Spring
• The Problem of Love Marriages
• Huge Spaces to Fill With Love
• Eyes of the Heart
• Hurry
• Family of Love
• Break the Rule
• Real Wealth Is Love
• Love Lesson
• Trouble
• Forgiveness: A Prose Poem
• Not All Is Forgiven
• Campaign for Love and Forgiveness
• Sparrow and Sword
• Teach the World
• How I Catch Love
• Two Beautiful Words
• How to Heal the World
• Dispense with Animosity
• Eyes of the Heart
• A Universe of Love
• I Apologize

Elay

• Refugee Camp in Holland – Part One
• Music is Not Prohibited
• Refugee Camp in Holland – Part II: Chicken and French Fries
• Refugee Camp in Holland – Part III: Ali’s Story, Continued
• Your Voice is Your Power
• Seasons
• The Day They Took My Father
• Educated Afghans: Return!
• So Our Youth Will Stay
• Home Now
• The Childhood of My Father – Part I
• The Childhood of My Father – Part II
• The Childhood of My Father – Part III
• The Childhood of My Father – Final Part
• Elay introduction

Ellaha

• I Remember…
• My First Vote
• An Afghan Girl Plays Basketball
• The Thirst for Education
• Photographs by Ellaha
• Ellaha introduction

Emaan

• The Taxi Driver
• Hijab: The Beauty of Muslim Women
• Waiting for You
• She Will Make It
• Read My Poems on the Reddish Stream of My Blood
• Suffering Kabul, A City I Love
• A Nest of Your Remembrance
• Imprisoned for Its Light
• Mother, Forgive Me!
• University Battleground

Events

• AWWP Reading in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on Sept. 30th
• Goffstown AWWP reading articles

Fahima

• Wail and Sing of Burning Desires
• Fahima introduction
• Stand Against the Gales
• The Good Days of Kabul
• Educating Afghan Girls Who Dream Big Dreams

Farahnaz

• The Panjshiry Boys
• Who Am I?
• How Can I Hide My Sorrow?
• Dare of Learning
• Fasting with Interest at Ramadan
• A Working Definition
• My Dreams
• A Poem for My Country
• An Afghan Woman
• Let Me Sit Near You
• Magic Words
• World Inequality
• Yes, We Are Afghan Children
• Please, Rain
• New Year
• Miss Connie
• When I Was Six
• All Souls
• Dried Flower
• Farahnaz introduction
• My Father’s Notebook
• The Innocents
• Hear Me the World

Farahnaz R.

• The Runoff Election Can Change Our Lives
• Farahnaz R. introduction
• 2014
• Girls Like Me Want Elections Finished
• My Father My Hero
• Being a Girl
• The Innocent Me

Fariba

• Choices
• The Secret of the Hidden Library
• Keeping a Secret
• For Cooks: A Recipe for Biryani
• Sacrifice and Healing
• Laughter That Renewed My Spirit
• Learning from My Father
• My Golden Childhood
• Girls and Education
• An Important Person
• My Busy Year
• International Women’s Day
• Hope in the Dark Time
• Nowruz

Fariba H.

• When There Is No Peace
• Fariba H. introduction
• Change for Mariam, Change for Women
• A Hate Letter to the Taliban
• My Sister, My Combat

Farida

• The Green Backpack
• I Want to Disappear…
• When the Sun Smiles…
• Your Name
• A Man on the Corner
• Let Me Relax
• Someone on the Road
• The Girl in the Mirror
• Walking With No Umbrella
• Angel
• My Smile
• A Monster’s Tale
• The Shadow of Fear
• Heroines of the Hearth
• Lost
• Trouble
• I Am Farkhunda
• Beyond Love
• Picture of Black and White
• Impossible Desire
• Dream Tree
• Hope

Fariha F.

• Bitter Days
• Fariha F. introduction

Farimah A.

• Things Unsaid
• Farimah A. introduction

Farishta

• Afghanistan
• Farishta introduction

Farrukh

• هشتم مارچ روز جهانی زن‘

Farzana T.

• I Dreamed I Was in Paris
• Let Girls Go to School
• ترس
• امید
• !کنارم بمان
• آدم نما
• شب بی سحر
• شادمانی

Fatemah M.

• The Sky Stoned
• Fatemah M. introduction

Fatima A.

• Clouds
• Fatima A. introduction

Fatima F.

• Hell and Paradise
• Charming
• Why Parents Must Stop Marrying Girls Early
• From the Courts: Maryam’s Story
• Zohal’s Flight to Safety
• Having a Big Family Was Mina’s Husband’s Wish
• Fatima F. introduction

Fatima G.

• The Painful Story of Beautiful Rukhshana
• Fatima G. introduction

Fatima H.

• My Name
• First Poem
• Tales from School: My Teacher Looks Like Dracula
• The Hotel Attack
• Is Ramadan Fair to Girls?
• I See Girls in Square Hats…
• We Would Have Preferred the Physics Teacher…
• The Bluest Skies in Afghanistan
• The Satisfaction of Studying
• My Sister and Me
• The School Principal
• Different in Afghanistan
• Turn Back the Clock
• A Girl Can Have Big Dreams
• Time to Protest
• Leaving My School for a New Adventure
• The Bravest Girls in the World
• Can I Talk?
• Behind the Smile
• The Massacre of the Hazara
• On the Streets of Kabul
• Fatima H. introduction
• What I Learned Going Home
• Biking on the Streets of Kabul

Fatima S.

• Walk in Dark
• Remapping
• I Meet the Alien God
• Come Back a Day
• Fatima S. introduction

Fattemeh AH

• The Evening I Will Never Forget
• My Cousin’s Story
• Hope Always Helps Me Move On
• The Rain
• My Mother Speaks About Her Pregnancy
• To Be In Love
• Fatemeh Ah. introduction

Fawzia I.

• Fawzia I. introduction

Featured

• The Blood of Afghans Cry and Mourn

Fighting Violent Extremism

• Grab the Pen and Write
• A Hate Letter to the Taliban
• I’m an Afghan, Not a Terrorist
• I Want the Foreign Troops to Stay and Help Afghanistan
• Taliban Hide in the People’s Homes
• Our Armies in Bamiyan Need Help to Stop the Taliban
• From Nangarhar: The Frightening Winter of 2016
• Kabul Today Is a City of Uncertainty
• Letter to the Taliban
• Afghan Women Speak Out About Terrorism in Their Country
• Who Is Responsible for the Death of Wasil Ahmad?

Fowzia

• Reach to My Wishes
• Destiny’s Hand

French translations

• Under Burqa

Freshta

• A Dream I Had
• Narrow Escape
• A Dream Was Lost But I Created Another
• Child Labor In Afghanistan
• Eid For Rich and Poor
• A Poem To The Government
• The Sun Prepares Good Landai
• The Bamiyan Buddhas
• Because I Am a Woman
• The Fake Talib
• Pomegranate
• The Nature of Natures
• Winter for Poor
• Peace Appears
• I Thought It Was a Dream But When I Woke, I Couldn’t Walk
• Bas Bi Bi and Khatema
• Do Not Shake My Hand, Please!
• Poor Orphan
• Socks and Vaseline
• Spring
• Brothers
• A Letter To Poppy
• While the Schools Burn
• American Soldiers: Here to Protect, or Violate?
• The Internet Goes Down
• Barq Came, Electricity Came
• Sexual Assault
• Bearing a Red Cross
• My Red Eyes
• Battle
• American Nature
• Humanity
• Freshta introduction

Freshta B.

• The Taliban’s Attack on Kunduz
• Freshta B. introduction
• I’m an Afghan, Not a Terrorist
• Who Is Responsible for the Death of Wasil Ahmad?

Freshta K.

• Football Victory Brings Afghans Full Circle from 9-11
• Am I Human or a Goat?
• My Cousin’s Wedding: Hope Remains
• On the President’s Desk
• Freshta K. introduction

Freshta R.

• !سنگ مزن، آتش مزن

Friba

• My World
• What I Remember
• Message on the Wall
• Sisters
• To My Amina
• Memories
• I Asked…
• My Tears
• The Passenger Girl
• The Life Sides
• She Is Me
• My Friend
• Teach the World
• How to Heal the World
• Because She Is a Girl
• Advocate Banoo
• Friba introduction
• Real Love
• I Think…
• I Want to Breathe

Frozan

• برای صلح

Frozan T.

• The Girl Was Crying
• Frozan T. introduction

Gharsanay

• We Don’t Want War Anymore
• A Mother’s Sacrifice

Gullafroz

• Afghan Citizens, Wake Up!
• Still Waiting for Sunshine
• The No Hope Bomb
• A Masterpiece of Nature, the Band-e-Amir
• A Call for Women Rights
• Maryam Dreamed of a Simple Life
• Time for the Magic Word: Change
• Gullafroz introduction

Gulnaz A.

• The Best Laid Plans

Hadia

• Unseen Bravery
• Hadia introduction

Hajar

• Daydreaming
• Attachment
• Hajar introduction
• Heart Break

Hasiba

• My Twilight Wish

Hassina

• The Rural Woman
• At the Jirga
• Hassina introduction

Haya

• If Every Woman Were Happy and Free
• Haya introduction

Herat writers (collaboration)

• My Heart in Herat

Hila

• Saturn’s Music
• Champion of Myths
• Doorways
• Meena and Her Sons
• Wishes
• Ume
• My Father, My Hero
• Drops of Rain
• Why I Write
• My Hapless Home
• Small Heart
• More Than Fifty of My People Were Killed Today…
• Loya Jirga: A Waste of Time and Money?
• If I Meet God
• Peace Shouts
• Hila introduction
• Fitting Literacy into Our Culture

Homa

• Mother Is Beauty and Light

Humaira

• The Eighth of March
• Shut up Because You Are a Girl
• The General’s Daughter
• Humaira introduction
• Saving Jamila
• The Rain
• Art of My Life
• Since the Lives of Our Mothers

Humaira T.

• Lonely
• Humaira T. introduction
• Humaira T. introduction
• Love You
• Distances Between Us

Humira

• Spring Morning
• Let Me Fly
• Birth of a Girl
• Humira introduction

Husnia

• Mother

Instructor

• Seeta on Long Island

International Women's Day

• My Dear Mahram (part 2)
• My Dear Mahram (part 1)
• I Want to Break the Gender Stereotypes in Afghanistan
• What’s Behind the Intractable Gender Gap in Afghanistan
• It’s Been a Difficult Year for Women in Afghanistan
• Afghan Women Can Break Gender Stereotypes
• My Dear Mahram (part 3)
• International Women’s Day 2017

Jalalabad writers

• Voices from Jalalabad

Jeena

• Her Daughter Is With Her

Justice for Farkhunda

• Burning Farkhunda, Burning Our Beliefs
• Seeking Justice for Farkhunda
• Tears in Kabul
• The New Fears in Kabul
• Fears
• I Am Sorry, My Sister
• آیا انسانیت مرده است؟
• Farkhunda’s Force
• Martyr Farkhunda
• :خواهرم فرخنده
• دختربهشت
• I Moan
• I Am Farkhunda
• The Mullah Outside the Mosque
• Her Force Lives On: Afghan Women Bear Witness to Farkhunda’s Murder with Poetry
• Their Hearts Were Made of Stone
• The Flawed Trial of Farkhunda’s Killers
• Farkhunda Said
• My Voice Is My Action
• A Dark Night
• There Is No Justice in Afghanistan, Only Shouts and Curses
• Was There Corruption in the Court?
• آدم نما

Justice for Rukhshana

• Stoning Rukhshana
• Two Girls, Same Destiny: Rukhshana and Farkhunda
• Please Hear Me
• The Painful Story of Beautiful Rukhshana
• For Rukhshana!

Kabul writers (collaboration)

• Kabul in Summer
• When I Think of Fall…
• Violence Against Women Feels Like…
• Nature’s Origin
• Celebrating Nowruz with Our Writers
• Nowruz
• Queen of My Life’s Land
• Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Begins
• Human Rights Day
• Bittersweetness
• Family of Love
• Tales from the Kabul Workshop: Gender Discrimination
• Childhood Memories
• Afghan Women Meet with Taliban
• Happy Mother’s Day from the AWWP Workshops

Kamilah

• The Biggest Deception
• Where Is the Peace?
• Taliban Dragons
• Lullaby
• The Taliban Takeover, part 1
• The Taliban Takeover, part 2
• Golden Dreams
• I Am Not Seyah-Sar
• The Children’s Interpreter
• Lost…
• A Wish That Never Came True
• Slivers of Peace
• Malala’s Courage
• Upon Waking on Human Rights Day
• A Hidden Storm
• To a Voice Forgotten
• The Afghan Dilemma of 2014
• No Woman No Tension
• Very Simply
• Huge Spaces to Fill With Love
• When I Was Six I Was Safe
• Learn from the Gardener
• Moments with Grandma
• Life with No Music: The Taliban Years
• I Feel Lost
• My Little Princess
• Nelson Mandela, an Inspirational Hero
• An Afghan Girl Educates Herself (part 1)
• An Afghan Girl Educates Herself (part 2)
• Heaven Doesn’t Need a Key
• She Is …
• Kamilah introduction
• The First and Last Slap
• God’s Tears
• The Mullah Outside the Mosque

Kandahar writers (collaboration)

• Mother of the Nation
• The Policewoman of Kandahar
• Mother’s Day Greetings from Kandahar

Khadija

• A Hazara Girl Takes Pride in Her Heritage
• Khadija introduction

Khadija N.

• Street Children of Herat
• Khadija N. introduction

Kochay

• My First Piece of Writing

Laila

• The Riot
• The Kabul Dance Recital
• Laila introduction

Lailoma

• Everyone Has Advice for an Afghan Girl

Latest Essays

• Narrow Escape
• The Kandahar Lawyer
• Women Walking Alone
• Kill Silence
• A Letter to My Parents
• So Our Youth Will Stay
• The Burqa Bride
• The Price of Peace – Part IV
• Hijab: The Beauty of Muslim Women
• I Am Afraid
• The Kingdom of the Moon
• Blue Like The Sky, Beautiful Like The Ocean
• Baad
• The First Lesson
• The Evening Walk, The Wild Looks
• My Morning
• Life in a Talib-held Province
• Tears of a Woman, Part I
• When Can I See?
• The Meaning of Democracy
• Please Keep Me In Jail
• Morning Irony
• I Am For Sale, Part II
• The Performance
• Returning to Afghanistan
• Looking out the Window
• The Struggle to Make Ends Meet
• She Will Make It
• Running for Parliament, Afghan-Style
• Picture of a Laptop
• First Meal in Iran
• Waiting for the Earthquake
• A Bold Step For Afghan Women Journalists
• Choices
• My Dream
• The Good Wife
• Electricity Comes To Farah
• Let Your Life Speak
• The Night of the Burn
• The Meaning of Freedom
• Ocean of Disappointment
• After Ten Minutes!
• My Mother’s Cancer
• My Exchange Year
• The Green Backpack
• Voting
• Suffering Kabul, A City I Love
• Forced Marriage – Shame of Divorce
• The Price of Peace – Part V
• Herat Woman Turns Tragedy into Determination
• Museum of Memories
• I Have Dreamed of You So Much
• Colorful Days after Black Nights
• The Explosion in the Middle of an Exam
• Keeping a Secret
• A Hard Decision
• The Chess Game
• The Thirst for Education
• Forgive Me, River!
• A Grave for My Dreams
• For Cooks: A Recipe for Biryani
• Eid For the Rich, Not For Us
• When the Sun Smiles…
• A Hope in the Unseen
• Beauty
• Dream World
• Brave Lady: Linda Norgrove
• A Woman’s Struggle to Work
• Sacrifice and Healing
• Oh Eid, Sweet Eid!
• Laughter That Renewed My Spirit
• A Pretty Toy in My Family’s Hands
• Hands to Hold My Hands
• Lend Me Kindness; I Will Return Twice of It!
• All Here Are Animals
• A Moment to Laugh
• I Am Surviving
• Departure…
• The Different Daughter
• To Laugh
• A Man on the Corner
• Poverty
• Learning from My Father
• God’s Creations
• The Mirror
• I Was Waiting
• Theater Under a Blanket (part 1)
• My Golden Childhood
• Theater Under a Blanket (part 2)
• What’s Your Advice for Afghan Women, Hillary Clinton?
• My Name Is Mahnaz
• Steps Along My Path
• The Sorrow of War
• The Girl in the Mirror
• Tears of a Woman, Part II
• Beyond My Comfort Zone
• Behind Bars
• Evening in Mashhad
• The Incorrect Tradition
• An Important Person
• My Busy Year
• My School in Jawzjan
• Snapshots from Home, Part I
• Snapshots from Home, Part II
• Snapshots from Home – Part III
• International Women’s Day
• Traveling Alone
• The Panjshiry Boys
• Small Heart, Big Wishes
• Spring Morning
• Walking With No Umbrella
• De Facto Partition: False Alternative for Afghanistan
• Hope in the Dark Time
• Broken Dream
• Angel
• Nowruz
• I Prefer to Be Called a Woman
• Self-Immolation: Rahima’s Story
• My Trip Alone
• My Smile
• My Name
• What He Left Us With
• A Beautiful Woman
• A Monster’s Tale
• The Herat Karate Team
• What Did That Guy Mean to Afghans? Nothing!
• The Accidental Terrorist
• Behind the News: A Herat Mother Hears the Bombs Go Off
• Dear Women of the World
• My School in Jawzjan (part 2)
• Why Return to Afghanistan?
• My Mother Gave Me Independence
• Be Brave, Sisters!
• Tales from School: My Teacher Looks Like Dracula
• The Shadow of Fear
• Obama’s Speech: A Warning Alarm
• The Taliban Rebound
• Afghan Citizens, Wake Up!
• Please Pray for My Friend
• The Hotel Attack
• Two Wings to Fly
• A Promise to My Friend
• Dare of Learning
• The Grandmother Leader
• I Saw Taliban Near Kabul
• The Children Were Waiting
• Hamam Zamana
• Is Ramadan Fair to Girls?
• The Traffic Policewoman of Herat
• The Naamah’ram Downstairs
• Fasting with Interest at Ramadan
• My Heart at Night
• Everything Is Smiling but My Soul
• A Child’s Ramadan Fast
• Long Wait to Iftar When You’re Young
• University Battleground
• Why Afghan Women Hide Their Beauty
• I Dreamed I Was in Paris
• To Live Like Angels
• I Will Not Give Up
• Let Girls Go to School
• A Poppy Addict’s Story
• Khastegari
• Still Waiting for Sunshine
• 9-11: When the End of the Taliban Began
• Islamabad on 9-11
• The Kabul Dance Recital
• Aftab, Whom I Am Proud Of
• My School for Street Kids
• In Ghōr, Women’s Voices Still Unheard
• The US Embassy Attack
• Born in an Iran Refugee Camp
• Talib Checkpoints on a Narrow Road
• Who I Love Most
• An Afghan at the Orooj School
• The Eidi Gift
• The Ladies’ Greenhouse Success Story
• I See Girls in Square Hats…
• The Marriage Court
• A Passenger
• Jirgas, Warriors, and Other Afghan Traditions
• We Would Have Preferred the Physics Teacher…
• Eid Memories
• The No Hope Bomb
• The Cinema, My Mother’s Dream
• Ibrahim’s Mistake
• Beneath the Dust
• Like Painting with Watercolors under Rain: Visiting India
• Sky Is the Nest of Swallows
• Garden of Flowers
• A Woman of Ambition
• Women Must Create Change Themselves
• Why Is Gender Violence Common?
• Teach the Children
• Remember Fatema, a Young Girl Who Was Studying Law
• The Holiday Frenzy
• An Afghan Girl Foresees a Risky Future
• Dialogue about Sexism
• A Father’s Choice
• The Bluest Skies in Afghanistan
• The Marriage Court, part two
• Come for Dinner at This Big House
• A Girl Heartened by Life
• The Voice of Sahar Gul
• The Satisfaction of Studying
• The Marriage Castle of Hopes
• Kabul’s First Snow of 2012
• My Sister and Me
• The Mulberry Tree
• Baghlani Bread Girls
• Afghan Feminist Thought, part 1
• The School Principal
• Lesson from a Thief
• Afghan Feminist Thought, part 2
• A Garden Full of Flowers
• Bachi Kocha at the Movies
• Nameless in Afghanistan
• The Secret Women’s Boxing Team
• The Sheepskin Factory
• Different in Afghanistan
• The Happy Future
• A Woman Named Arefah
• I Remember
• A Brave Woman
• Heroines of the Hearth
• Murmurs
• She Is Gone Now
• The Eighth of March
• Help Us Build, But Stop the Killing
• Violence Breeds Violence
• Meena and Her Sons
• The History Teacher and the Story of Rabia Balkhi
• Thirsty Wolves and Love
• A Young Widow’s Dilemma
• One Sunny Day
• The Biggest Deception
• The Good Father
• Afghan Feminist Thought, part 3
• My Childhood, part 1
• Taliban Dragons
• Going to School and Wishes
• My Childhood, part 2
• The Hope Revolution
• Have a Look at the Last Ten Years
• Turn Back the Clock
• If I Were an Artist
• Lessons from Mother to Child
• Revenge Marriage
• The Taliban Takeover, part 1
• An Afghan Woman’s Message to the NATO Conference
• The Taliban Takeover, part 2
• Asefa’s Tent
• Afghan Fables: Ali and Wali
• Going to College
• What I Remember
• The Burden of the Family Honor
• A Glimpse of Naveed, the One with the Uncombed Hair
• Message on the Wall
• Shut up Because You Are a Girl
• Golden Dreams
• The Wonderful Yard
• Solace for the Children
• Peace? I Have Only Heard of It
• A Masterpiece of Nature, the Band-e-Amir
• I Am Not Seyah-Sar
• My Parents’ Dream Was an Education for Me
• My Father, My Teacher
• I Would Wear Sunglasses If I Could Drive
• A Girl Can Have Big Dreams
• The Children’s Interpreter
• A Call for Women Rights
• My New Future Leaders Club
• Misery By Superstitious Tradition
• Suffering In Silence
• The Men Who Would Sell Their Wives
• Afghan Fables: The Handless Man
• First Comes Love…
• Powerless to Protest
• An Educated Mother
• Time to Protest
• My Dearest Angel Father
• An Afghan Girl’s Feelings About Life
• Leaving My School for a New Adventure
• Ramadan, When the Rich and Poor Are Equal
• Shadow on My Wall
• Going Home to Afghanistan
• Nazi’s Wishes
• The Corruption Problem
• A Wish That Never Came True
• It Could Happen to Me
• The Peace Officer
• Unanswered Questions
• A Girl Named Sahar
• Where Has All the Money Gone?
• Victim of Virginity
• Traveling Tales
• How to Change Afghanistan
• Finding Independence
• Victim of Virginity, part 2
• Problems of a Widow
• When It’s Day There It’s Night in Afghanistan
• Who Causes Violence and Panic?
• Prophet Muhammad Needs No Defenders
• Malala’s Courage
• Mud Puddle Puppy
• The Bravest Girls in the World
• A Stronger Woman I Have Never Known
• Women in Our Economy
• The Ambitions of Children
• Fighting for Women’s Rights at Kabul University
• Women in Our Economy, part 2
• Fighting for Women’s Rights at Kabul University, part 2
• Gender and Violence in Afghanistan
• Orange Day Every Day
• Gulniz, Victim of Violence
• The Horse-Cart Driver
• Am I Guilty for Being a Woman?
• The Horse-Cart Driver, part two
• Women Are Not Like Honey
• Eight Daughters for Sale, the Oldest First
• Child Bride
• Escape Abroad: Afghans Leave Their Country
• What Is My Crime?
• End of Semester in Kabul
• Disabled and Poor: The Education Gap
• Why We Need Afghan Women in Business
• The General’s Daughter
• I Am Married with You, Afghanistan
• Afghan Women’s Rights: Will History Repeat Itself?
• Behind the Smile
• Afghan Women’s Rights: “Shaming Your Father”
• Birth of a Girl
• The Taliban Committed Suicide Near My Office Today
• Tomorrow’s Enemies
• Heaven Is Below a Mother’s Feet
• The Afghan Dilemma of 2014
• Mahtab, Victim of Forced Marriage
• Qudsia’s Three Children
• Small Reasons Add Up to Becoming a Feminist
• A Love Marriage Without the Love
• On My Way to University
• Good Teacher in Helmand
• I Have a Dream
• Dust off Our Hearts and Find Love
• Ministry Officials Say “Women a Source of Distraction”
• My Grandfather’s Gift
• My Early Life
• The Massacre of the Hazara
• Gender Violence Comes in Many Forms
• Living with the Taliban
• Memories of War and Horror
• Nearly Lost in Translation
• Lost
• You Are a Woman, Do Not Tell Anyone!
• The Woman District Governor
• No Woman No Tension
• At the Jirga
• Memories of War and Horror, part two
• The Tradition That Killed Sahar
• Literacy in Afghanistan
• The Fourth Child
• Inheritance: A Push in the Right Direction
• Grandfather’s Last Letter
• Literacy in Afghanistan, part 2: Educating Girls and Women
• Exchange for a Cow
• A Policeman, a Survey, and a Birthday
• Cursed Baby
• Crying the First Time
• Enter through One Door and Leave through Another
• Exchange for a Cow, part 2
• The Problem of Love Marriages
• Huge Spaces to Fill With Love
• The Women’s Vote
• More Than Fifty of My People Were Killed Today…
• My Memory of One Afghan Mother and Daughter
• Why the Girls Get Sold
• Bitter Days
• What Islam Says about Marriage
• Two Boys and Their Mother
• Going to School in Kandahar
• Explosions at School
• Dear Readers
• Islamic Law, and Disobedience
• Islam and the Anti-Violence Law
• Maryam Dreamed of a Simple Life
• Destiny’s Hand
• When I Was Six I Was Safe
• Real Wealth Is Love
• Not All Is Forgiven
• How I Catch Love
• Time for the Magic Word: Change
• We Don’t Want War Anymore
• The Conservative Jihad on our Media
• A Father’s Love
• On the Streets of Kabul
• Watch Out for Underage Drivers in Kabul
• Women, Look in the Mirror
• The Shared House
• Dispense with Animosity
• “Voice of Afghanistan” Singer Provokes Rude Commentary
• A Mother’s Sacrifice
• The Importance of Family
• One Important Day in School
• Moments with Grandma
• What Are Afghanistan’s Priorities?
• A Tale of Two Teenagers: Malala and Anisa
• Voices of Afghanistan: It’s Not about Clothing
• Winter in Kandahar
• Is Studying Astronomy an Impossible Wish?
• The Burden of Being a Girl
• The Story of Rabia Balkhi
• The Story of Nadia
• My Sisters and Me
• When I Was Seven
• Why Parents Must Stop Marrying Girls Early
• Early Marriage: Selling the Daughters
• When the Nightingale Stopped Singing
• Early Marriage: Not the Only Destiny
• Marrying Young in Afghanistan
• The Abandoned Family
• We Won! An International Football Victory Feels Like Peace
• Angel in a Girl’s Life
• Football Victory Brings Afghans Full Circle from 9-11
• Hope Is Alive Again
• Am I Human or a Goat?
• For Nilab, Forced to Marry at Thirteen
• Helping a Landmine Victim Regain Hope
• A Meaningful Conversation
• Life with No Music: The Taliban Years
• Proud to Be an Afghan Girl
• The Marriage Tradeoff
• From the Courts: Maryam’s Story
• Zohal’s Flight to Safety
• More Time Needed for Positive Change
• Why?
• Warlord Candidate
• The Risk in Selling a Daughter
• How Many Children Is a Woman’s Right
• Having a Big Family Was Mina’s Husband’s Wish
• My Voting Card
• When the American Soldiers Came
• My Heart Asked Why?
• There Is a Path Even to the Tallest Mountain
• My Cousin’s Wedding: Hope Remains
• The Afghan Dilemma
• The Blooming Rose
• Afghan Women Should Expand Career Opportunities
• Loya Jirga Vote Signals a Brighter Future
• A Barbaric Tragedy
• Waiting for Justice at the Women’s Affairs Office
• Tales from the Kabul Workshop: Gender Discrimination
• Dinner at 7
• Thoughts from the Bamiyan Workshop: Gender Discrimination
• Nelson Mandela, an Inspirational Hero
• Long List of Men Running For President, But No Women
• Tahera’s Story
• Loya Jirga: A Waste of Time and Money?
• Snapshots from Herat
• Power of Islam
• What It Means to Be a Muslim Woman
• In Afghanistan, the Rules Are Twisted
• Reality of Islam
• “In Each Action There Is a Blessing…”
• An Afghan Girl Educates Herself (part 1)
• An Afghan Girl Educates Herself (part 2)
• The Office Argument
• 2014
• Peace in the Home
• The Big Wedding Party
• The Kindergarten Teacher’s Story
• Stupid Wife
• Wishes for a Daughter
• Dear Grandmother
• School Friends
• Cook a Potato
• The Streets Will Be Washed by Rain
• The Cause of Violence Is Money
• I Will Be Brave
• Marriage Tradition and a Murder
• Uncertainty of the Heart
• My Puzzle
• On the President’s Desk
• What I Learned from My Friends
• Five Things About Women
• Hope for the Future
• My Mother’s Extraordinary Life
• A Reminder of the Last Afghan Elections
• Elections: My Point of View
• Registering Voters in the Northern Villages
• Candidates Make Promises for Women’s Vote
• Paying the Price for Democracy in Afghanistan
• The Nowruz Holiday Is a Family Day
• How Elections Use Quotas for Women
• The Candidate from Kandahar
• Who Can Win? What the Campaign Slogans Don’t Say
• What I Expect from My New President
• Every Election Brings New Hurdles in Afghanistan
• Change Starts Here
• Defining the Women’s Vote in Afghanistan
• The Blank Vote
• When the Birds Sang of Freedom
• On a Sleepless Night I Dream of Peace
• Making Voting a Family Affair
• Waking Up to Election Day in Afghanistan
• The Violence Lifted from My Shoulders When I Voted
• Spring Had a Nice Feel after Voting
• Halima Is My Hero
• Don’t Ask a Man Who I Am
• Don’t Ask A Man Who I Am, part 2
• Studying Girl
• Raise Your Voice for Women’s Sports
• Forgotten by God
• Life Stops for Nothing
• Is My Life My Right?
• Life Stops for Nothing, part two
• Street Boys Helping Landslide Victims
• My Mother and Me
• When I Was Seventeen
• The First and Last Slap
• Everyone Has Advice for an Afghan Girl
• Stand Up for Your Rights: An Action Call to Women
• Happiness Is a Baby (Sister)
• What Is a “Good Girl” in Afghanistan?
• Three Wishes
• Two Brides and Their Mother-in-Law
• Does a Headscarf Define the Girl?
• A Bright and Funny Girl Named Sitara
• On Marriage and Forgiveness
• What Is Regret ?
• The Runoff Election Can Change Our Lives
• Will Disillusioned Afghans Vote a Second Time?
• Meet the Two Men Who Want to Be President
• Afghanistan: Between Fears and Hopes
• In Search of a Champion
• Lessons from My Mother
• Will Promises Come True?
• Finding Equality Within
• A Mistake
• What Happened to Equality?
• What I Learned Going Home
• Fitting Literacy into Our Culture
• Turning 18 Is Different in Afghanistan
• Anxiety Builds as Votes Are Counted
• Waiting for the Recount
• Voters’ Fears Lift after Kerry’s Visit
• Long Days of Ramadan
• Help Me with a Box of Oil
• Fasting Is Difficult with No Nourishment
• A Glass of Water
• Nothing to Put on a Napkin
• No Dates for Iftar
• Three Women in Kabul
• More Parliamentary Greed
• Feeling Better after Diplomatic Visit
• Who Will Be President?
• Girls Like Me Want Elections Finished
• It’s a Jungle
• Is Unity More Than a Slogan?
• Sabera’s Story of Resistance
• Biking on the Streets of Kabul
• Child of War
• The Women’s Bazaar
• Dream World
• My Only Fault Was Falling Asleep
• A Lovely Evening at Home
• A Glass of Wine
• Culture Shock: Pet Vaccines and Bikinis
• Debating the News
• When I Was Young
• Girl Up—on a Bike
• Surfer, Rock Climber, Gymnast
• Orphan Girl
• Taliban Attack Outside My School
• I Want to Be an Astronaut
• We Need National Unity
• In One Nation Two Can Lead
• Childhood Memories
• My Journey Toward Knowledge
• Dear Mr. President
• Hello My Dear President
• In One Nation Two Can Lead
• My Ideal Dinner Guest
• Dividing the Power for Unity
• Give Afghan Women Credit for Their Strength
• Eid, My Favorite Holiday
• Behind the Mottos an Identity
• My Glass Bangles Jingle on Eid
• The Girl Was Crying
• Freedom
• The Dishonored Honor of Paghman
• Afghan Girls Struggle with Wrong Traditions
• Being a Girl in Afghanistan
• What Is a Good Girl in Afghanistan?
• Election’s Over, Time to Talk Peace
• Going Home Again
• Please Be Silent, the Girl Said
• Teaching Math Didn’t Add up Right
• Watching the News
• No Arrests Made in Journalist Killings
• I Dream of a Healthy Afghan Society
• My Sister’s Wedding
• President’s Wife Must Be More Than a Symbol
• My First Job
• Lessons of Love and Forgiveness
• My Father’s Dream
• Take Responsibility for Peace
• Rethinking a Wedding Tradition
• My Multilingual Country
• Afghan Girls, Then and Now
• American Troops Please Stay
• My Society Looks Like Jail to Me
• Cradle of Violence
• Oral Stories Project: Help Raise Our Voice
• Misunderstanding Rape
• Oral Stories Project: Never Give Up
• Oral Stories Project: I Give My Daughters Happiness Now
• Oral Stories Project: The Story of My Family Is Gender Violence
• How Culture Leads to Gender Violence
• Oral Stories Project: Gender Violence Is Increasing
• Oral Stories Project: A Girl Is Denied Medical Treatment
• Oral Stories Project: The Nonsense Talk Creates Violence 
• Oral Stories Project: Two Wives
• It Could Be Me
• International Human Rights Day 2014
• God-Conferred Human Rights
• An Afghan Girl Dreams of Books
• Explosion
• My Brother’s Wedding
• In Peshawar, I Pray for Peace
• We Grieve with Pakistan
• Shame on Taliban
• A Hazara Girl Takes Pride in Her Heritage
• Bringing in the New Year in Mazar-e-Sharif
• Women Working Alongside Men in India
• Winter Flight
• Walking Woman
• Riding a Bicycle, a Forbidden Joy
• Women Not Welcome at the University Mosque
• The High Price of Freedom of Speech
• The Goodbye Moment
• Saving Jamila
• On Killing the Cartoonists
• I Am Charlie
• A Dream
• Why Peace and Women’s Rights Matter
• The Gap That Leads to Terrorism
• How Women Feed the Patriarchy
• Zemestan hay Kabul!
• Winter Memories In Herat
• Summer Break in the Afghan Winter
• The Heartwarming Winter in Afghanistan
• The Last Letter
• I Saw the Hell
• Thank You for Listening to Our Voices
• A Woman’s Life Is So Violent
• A Brother Kills, His Sisters Pay the Price
• Human Rights Provide All Opportunities to Men
• I Am Just a Poor Woman
• Equal Rights Is Only a Slogan
• It Starts With Us
• Fear of Disgrace and Tumult
• No Rights for the Orphans
• Raise Your Voice
• Change for a New Generation
• Tears and Joys of an Afghan Schoolgirl
• Unseen Bravery
• Never Give Up
• Men and Women Are Different
• Change Begins at Home
• Living with the In-Laws  
• She Cries in Her Heart
• The Lost Wallet
• Wake Up Against the Taliban
• Why Afghan Girls Give up on School
• Freedom Is an Attitude
• What Should the President Talk About?
• Burning Farkhunda, Burning Our Beliefs
• Seeking Justice for Farkhunda
• Tears in Kabul
• The New Fears in Kabul
• Martyr Farkhunda
• How the Media Encourages ISIS
• Inbox: Secret of Happy Living
• The Mullah Outside the Mosque
• Their Hearts Were Made of Stone
• The Streets Are Also Mine
• Meeting First Lady Rula Ghani
• If I Were Afghanistan’s First Lady
• Breaking the Barriers: Fatima, Mahtab & Feroza
• Did Young Voters Sway the Presidential Elections?
• Taliban Did Not Let Girls Go to School
• The Unequal Divide of Illiteracy
• Washing and Cleaning
• An Illiterate Maid Asks for Respect
• Happiness Is Feeling Safe One Day
• Do Not Stay Home: Go Out and Learn!
• I Want to See Smiles Every Day
• AWWP Is About Proving Yourself
• My Girls Will Raise the Voices of Women
• My Daughters Show the World They Are Writers
• My Angel Is a Writer
• The Flawed Trial of Farkhunda’s Killers
• My Voice Is My Action
• Wail and Sing of Burning Desires
• The Goat and the Butcher
• Everyday Terror
• A Young Writer Escapes from a Forced Marriage 
• The Policewoman of Kandahar
• Afghan Star Show Enriches Our Lives
• Art of My Life
• Our Black and White TV
• I Don’t Want to Be Thirteen and Go with That Old Man
• Afghan Women Meet with Taliban
• The Woman in Me Is My Mother
• Mami, Bobo, Maman, Heaven Is Under Your Feet
• My Mother Taught Me to Be Strong
• My Life Guide
• A Traditional Marriage Takes a Different Turn
• My Father’s Story: Tales of a Teacher and the Taliban
• The Power of Our Pens: American U. to Build a Mosque for Women
• A Good Father, a Hero
• My Father’s Notebook
• A Girl Who Ran Away: Fatima’s Story
• Ramadan: Blessings for Humanity 
• My Younger Self Would Be Surprised at Me
• Disabled Afghans Discuss Marriage in Herat
• The Man Who Thought I Was Weak
• Brave and Strong Afghan Women, Raise Your Voices!
• Stand Against the Gales
• In the Old Ramadan, a Girl’s Prayers Went Unheard
• Afghan Men Can Wear Underwear in Public but a Woman Cannot Wear a Short Dress
• People Wanted the Death Penalty for Farkhunda’s Killers
• What an Afghan Girl Learned when the Schools Closed
• Do We Care Enough about Justice for an Afghan Woman? 
• On Surprises and Wishes
• Kabul Artist in Body Armor Makes Street Harassment a Public Issue
• There Is No Justice in Afghanistan, Only Shouts and Curses
• Was There Corruption in the Court?
• Eid Mubarak to My Family and May We Know Peace
• The Two Finger Test
• I Always Try to Be Happy
• Ghazni, Land of the Kings
• What Afghan Women Endure
• The Unfulfilled Dream of the Afghan Human Rights Queen
• I Did Not Want to Marry That Boy
• Ancient City of Herat Turned 3,000 Years Old This Year
• We Are Similar, Yet Different
• Sold Three Daughters, Got a Car
• Honesty Can Bring Peace: Allah Told Us Honesty Is Essential
• The Day the Houses Were Destroyed in Afghanistan
• My Mother, the Mirror of Justice
• Beautiful Parwan: Place of My Dreams
• My Laptop, a Gift from My Parents
• The Good Days of Kabul
• Why Good Girls Never Choose Love
• When I Go Outside I Wear the Blue Burqa
• My Brother Chose My Husband For Me
• I Had a Dream of Becoming Literate
• My Husband Follows Taliban Rules in Our House
• I Ask the Government: Please Hear Our Voices
• I Regret Forcing My Daughter to Marry at Sixteen
• A Baby Girl Is Sometimes Thrown Away in a Box
• The Teachers Inspire Me to Let My Girls Learn
• No Matter the Age, Women Are Always Victims of Violence
• Eid Brings Us Happiness and Laughter
• We Are Forever Friends, in Kabul or Far Away
• Everyone Says Eid Mubarak! During This Holiday
• I Love Eid
• She Thirsts for Eid: One Girl’s Story
• Bamiyan at Its Most Beautiful 
• The Taliban’s Attack on Kunduz
• I Wish You Knew How I Loved You, My Brother
• I Wish You Knew How I Loved You, My Brother
• Making a Better World for Girls
• The Way They Keep Afghan Girls out of School
• Making a Better World for Girls
• The Way They Keep Afghan Girls out of School
• What I Learned When We Escaped the Taliban
• What I Learned When We Escaped the Taliban
• When Will There Be Peace in Afghanistan?
• When Will There Be Peace in Afghanistan?
• One of the Lucky Girls
• A New Mullah Who Will Bring No Peace
• When the Earthquake Struck in Kabul on Monday
• Saddened by the Taliban, Bombings, and Now an Earthquake
• An Earthquake Reminds Us That Life Is Brief
• Women’s Roles Are Changing in Afghan Society
• The Mask of Jihad
• Residents Fled When Taliban Attacked
• Two Girls, Same Destiny: Rukhshana and Farkhunda
• The Taliban in My Dream
• The Painful Story of Beautiful Rukhshana
• To Stay or Leave Afghanistan a Difficult Choice for Many
• The Girl Who Got to Be a Teacher
• Sabzina Studies Secretly at Night for University Degree
• It Is a Frightening Life in a Violent Patriarchal Society 
• Educating Afghan Girls Who Dream Big Dreams
• The Short Life of Khadija Who Was Forced to Marry
• Many Sides to Gender Violence in Afghanistan
• No Honor in Honor Killing
• Four Brothers Sell Their Sister for $20,000
• Change for Mariam, Change for Women
• The Taliban and Daesh Use Us Like Toys
• Afghans Want Justice All Over Our Country
• The Power of Reading a Good Book
• Internet Bringing a Magical Change to Afghan Girls
• Dark Days
• Afghanistan, My Love and My Pain
• When Will We Have Peace?
• A Wish for Peace, New Year 2016
• The Girl with Almond Eyes Who Knew All the Answers
• Racist, Shame on You!
• The Station
• Leaving Afghanistan for a New Country
• We Do Not Deny That Water Boils at 100 Degrees, Yet We Deny Our Humanity
• Violence at Home: The Worst Day of My Life
• Gender Violence Follows a Refugee Across the Continent
• The Grit of a Woman Boss
• The Persistence of Zarghona
• My Future Is Not My Sheep
• Hope Twinkles in a Dark Sky
• A Harsh and Beautiful Season
• Reza Gul, an Innocent Bird in a Violent Marriage
• Taliban Attacks Must Not Prevent Our Freedom of Speech
• Snow Brings Hope, But Storms Are Perilous in the Mountains
• I’m an Afghan, Not a Terrorist
• I Want the Foreign Troops to Stay and Help Afghanistan
• If Every Woman Were Happy and Free
• Winter Has Two Faces
• Winter of 2016 Filled with Snow and Terror
• Taliban Hide in the People’s Homes
• My Dear Mahram (part 2)
• My Dear Mahram (part 1)
• I Want to Break the Gender Stereotypes in Afghanistan
• What’s Behind the Intractable Gender Gap in Afghanistan
• It’s Been a Difficult Year for Women in Afghanistan
• Afghan Women Can Break Gender Stereotypes
• My Dear Mahram (part 3)
• Our Armies in Bamiyan Need Help to Stop the Taliban
• Badakhshan, My Land of Mountains and Mines
• Celebrating Spring, Our New Year
• Our Writers Celebrate Nowruz, from the AWWP Workshops
• Widows Should Be Allowed to Remarry
• Behind the Curtains at the Hospital
• Women Against Women: A Demonic Mother-in-Law
• Supporting Five Daughters Becomes a Woman’s Responsibility
• My Father Always Said “Just Learn to Cook”
• My Father Said He Loved My Brothers More Than Me
• Married at Twelve, a Fifty-Year-Old Mother Cannot Forgive
• What Is the Future for an Afghan Boy Like Yousuf?
• A Five Kilometer Walk to School
• From Nangarhar: The Frightening Winter of 2016
• Kabul Today Is a City of Uncertainty
• Who Is Responsible for the Death of Wasil Ahmad?
• The Most Influential Woman I Know
• What Is a Good Mother?
• Since the Lives of Our Mothers
• Happy Mother’s Day from the AWWP Workshops
• Mother’s Day Greetings from Kandahar
• Putting on the Hijab
• The Virtues of Being Single
• The Mother-in-Law Problem
• The Day I Began Writing Poetry
• My First Piece of Writing
• Street Children of Herat
• Visit to Forgotten Dasht-e-Barchi—Land of Hope (pt. 2)
• Visit to Forgotten Dasht-e-Barchi—Land of Hope
• Without Basic Care, a Toothache Becomes a Deformity
• Afghanistan’s Street Children Can Be Future Heroes
• To Stay or to Go: Which Is More Dangerous?
• One Floor from My Sister, Waiting to Die
• I Prepare to Die as the Taliban Attacks AUAF

Latest Poems

• Remembering Fifteen
• I Thought It Was a Dream But When I Woke, I Couldn’t Walk
• Evening With Friends
• The Book
• Under Burqa
• Sexual Assault
• Mistake
• Mother
• Far From You
• Hey, Humans!
• My Red Eyes
• The Beast Within
• If You Kill Me
• Battle
• Golden Moments & Green Seconds
• Night
• American Nature
• Leave
• My Eyes
• Survival
• You
• Candle
• Waiting for You
• My Twilight Wish
• Damn!
• Who Am I?
• I Wish My Country Was Not My Love
• An Afghan Poet
• I Want to Fly in the Sky
• The Grave Is Always Silent
• Tomes
• Today My Heart Cries
• Stop Crying My Heart
• Remember Your Heart
• Grandma’s Kitchen
• Life Is Difficult Here For Me
• My Mother Speaks About Her Pregnancy
• The Kitchen
• My University Days
• My Village
• Victim of Male Domination
• Today I Want To Cry
• River Promise
• To Be In Love
• Thinking of You
• Read My Poems on the Reddish Stream of My Blood
• Highways
• For You, Dad
• My Day Is Full of Luck
• No One…
• Whenever…
• Shining Star
• A Nest of Your Remembrance
• If You Want My Picture, Pay Me
• I Want to Disappear…
• Sorry
• Life Is Two Days
• Allah
• Gold Hidden in the River
• Imprisoned for Its Light
• My Shadow
• Your Oceanic Look
• Mother, Forgive Me!
• I Cry
• I Saw You
• Peace
• Your Name
• Ship of Dreams
• My Life
• A World of Luck
• Why Do You Cry?
• My Crazy Room
• What Can I Give You, My Friend?
• Let Me Relax
• If I Don’t Write
• Someone on the Road
• Love
• Girls and Education
• We Will Rise
• For Last and For Ever
• Lost
• Turning the Soil
• She
• Where Have You Gone?
• A Full Life
• Who Am I?
• To My Loved One
• You: My Beautiful Dream
• Joy and Grief in Rain
• I Wish I Were a Bird
• A Lively Morning
• How Can I Hide My Sorrow?
• First Poem
• My Mother’s Day
• I Am Tired Today
• My Daughter, Yamna
• Nest
• Illumination
• The Sky Is Not Blind!
• Sack of Winds
• Guardian Angel
• If Life Repeats
• Desire
• Talk to Me
• The World Has Escaped Us
• My Son
• Imprisonment
• Hide
• Igneous Weather
• Memories
• My Heart in Herat
• Kabul in Summer
• Hope for Afghan Women
• I Saw a Woman, with Water in Her Hands
• Let Me Grow Up
• Ramadan Kareem
• A Working Definition
• The Blue Cage
• Rain’s Owner
• Cry for the Beautiful Land
• From Islamabad on 9-11 to Herat on 9-21
• My Dreams
• For the Homeless Soul
• Society Ritual
• When I Think of Fall…
• I Am a Stone
• Freedom
• Take My Hands
• An Evening Prayer
• Murmurs Behind a Door
• I Am a Leaf
• Let’s Talk
• A Poem for My Country
• An Afghan Woman
• Walk in Dark
• Stop Violence Against Women
• Saturn’s Music
• Violence Against Women Feels Like…
• If I Were a Man
• Champion of Myths
• Happiness
• Bedtime
• The Gift
• A Prayer for Grandmother
• Little Boy
• Let Me Sit Near You
• Chocolate-Flavored Days
• Eyes of My Burqa
• Doorways
• Land of Fairies
• Nature’s Origin
• Today Is Different
• Pens and Patience
• Women of My Country
• But…
• Stamped as a Girl
• Nowruz
• My Dear Mom
• An Orphan’s Hope
• Magic Words
• Wishes
• Searching
• The Lovely Province
• Where Is the Peace?
• My Little Angel
• My World
• In My Girlish Dreams
• World Inequality
• A Decision
• Mini-Mal
• Daughter of War
• I Can’t Coz It Was Always You…
• Ume
• Mummy
• Lullaby
• The Protest
• Get Up
• Write for Kabul
• Mother
• Awakened
• A House Divided
• Hope
• Letter From an Afghan Woman to Her Afghan Brothers
• Queen of My Life’s Land
• Empty Minutes
• Yes, We Are Afghan Children
• Nameless Identity
• Who Is She?
• My Father, My Hero
• The Decision
• Beggar of Education
• My Soul Is Alive
• Come Let Us Laugh
• Seeking My Lucky Star in My Life
• The Window
• Sisters
• Where Heaven Is Found
• To My Amina
• Attacked
• Let Us Forgive Now
• My Allah
• Lost…
• Memories
• One Thing Missing in Our Country
• Slivers of Peace
• Little Flowers
• I Asked…
• Triumph
• Remapping
• Black and White
• I Meet the Alien God
• Love in Afghanistan
• Come Back a Day
• Kite Season!
• My Tears
• Please, Rain
• Remember to Forget
• Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Begins
• Legitimizing Inequality
• A World of Difference
• Mark My Word—Spread My Words
• Rainy Eyes
• Upon Waking on Human Rights Day
• Human Rights Day
• Like a Pomegranate
• Life
• A Little Wind
• From the Moment I First Felt Alive
• A Hidden Storm
• On the Way to Snow
• The Passenger Girl
• Because She Is a Girl
• Wait for the Shine
• Drops of Rain
• Hands to Hold
• First Poem
• Allah’s Gifts
• Let Me Fly
• My Country, My Pride
• Afghanistan
• One Repeat
• New Year
• To a Voice Forgotten
• Tears from the Abaseen
• Why I Write
• The Life Sides
• Undefeated
• In My Room
• Humanity
• Deserted by the Sun
• Together
• Sweet Bird
• To My Teacher
• Today I Want
• If Love Took Over My Country
• I Am Alone
• Hell and Paradise
• Why Forgive
• I Am a Sparrow
• The Peace Season
• Arrive to Culmination
• Mother’s Love
• Charming
• The Rural Woman
• Very Simply
• Life with Dander
• Disabled, But Able
• Reach to My Wishes
• My Afghan People
• My Hapless Home
• Bittersweetness
• She Is Me
• Get Up!
• I Feed Myself
• Miss Connie
• I Wish I Knew
• Small Heart
• Teaching of Spring
• Eyes of the Heart
• Hurry
• Family of Love
• Break the Rule
• Things Unsaid
• Alone Girl Alone
• Missing My Mom
• There Is No Fairy Mother
• Missing You
• Cold-Hearted
• Burqa
• My Friend
• First Daughter
• Brave Girl
• A Girl in Boy’s Clothes
• Bravery
• Placeless Girl
• Five Sisters
• Smiling Face
• My Friend
• Revolt
• Love Lesson
• Trouble
• Forgiveness: A Prose Poem
• Sparrow and Sword
• Teach the World
• Two Beautiful Words
• Learn from the Gardener
• Away from You
• Cow Nation
• Stronger Than You Think
• Since You Left
• Now, I Know
• When I Was Six
• Depth Look at Child
• How to Heal the World
• Peace Is a Dream in My Land
• Eyes of the Heart
• Justice all over the World for Women
• A Universe of Love
• I Apologize
• Correction
• Lullaby
• Rose
• Wicked Witch
• Hope, Fear, Wish
• Oh, Seeker
• Talking with Flowers
• Life
• My Mother Said Be Happy
• Big Land
• Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
• Destiny’s Choices
• Football Is the Symbol of Peace
• One Day Is Today
• Sunrise
• The Dark Net
• God! If You Were an Afghan Woman
• Where Am I?
• Angel Daughter
• A Girl in My Family
• I Am a Girl
• My Wild Imagination
• The Sky Stoned
• Daughter of Nature
• Our Future
• Glimpse of Love
• Wake Up, Don’t Be Silent
• Because She Is a Girl
• I Feel Lost
• Our Sons on the Field
• The Only Lonely Woman
• Fire
• Conversation
• The Road Is Full of Dust
• My Little Princess
• My Strength
• Spring Garden
• Under the Same Sky
• Never Think It’s Too Late
• I Am Female — in Other Words, Human
• I Want to Speak
• Mahsa’s 16 Lines for 16 Days of Activism
• Once I Loved You
• Why Can’t Tears Stop Your Violence
• Mother of Brightness on Wings of Freedom
• Little Girl
• Many Meanings
• All Souls
• Kabul Nights
• The Yellow Paper Flower Sketch
• Brothers
• Listen to Me
• Honeymoon in the Graveyard
• Color of Hope
• The Dream Said
• Bird
• Star
• Snow
• The Wish
• The Legends
• Power Means Not Killing
• What Is?
• The Worldly Butterfly
• Like a Breeze
• If I Meet God
• Bring Me Light
• Can I?
• Heaven Doesn’t Need a Key
• Don’t Shout on Me
• Where I Live
• Because We Are Women
• Reach High
• Women Are Angels
• Captive
• I Know a Woman
• Being a Girl
• A Hymn for Freedom
• I Am an Afghan Woman
• Mother of the Nation
• A Different Kind of Day
• Under My Burqa
• She Is …
• Advocate Banoo
• Beneath a Mother’s Feet
• Dried Flower
• Sitara
• Inside Burqa
• Ode to the Afghan Soldier
• I Call to You, Oh Afghan Men!
• Fear
• Broken
• Peace Shouts
• Look to the Universe
• Book
• Hope for Spring in Our Hearts
• A Woman Is…
• My World
• Mother
• Untitled
• I Am Asking You
• Angry Mountain
• Oh My Allah…
• A Poem for My Country
• Don’t Call Me Names
• Badakhshan
• Broken Glass
• When We Were Kings and Queens
• Snow
• Dad, I Miss You
• My Father, Conqueror of My Heart
• The Voice of Rain
• Who Is This Moon?
• Freedom
• 2014
• Laughter to My Lips
• Equality
• My Beautiful and Lovely Kandahar
• Tonight Is My Night
• Ramadan Mubarak
• Real Love
• Laughter to My Lips
• Good Morning, Madar Jaan!
• In Lament of Gaza
• Black
• Once in a While
• Flood Is on the Way
• A Lonely Rain
• War
• Afghan Woman
• My Father My Hero
• Mrs. Beautiful and Mr. Nice
• Oh, Baba Sahib
• Mazar My Homeland
• Rain
• Beauty of Sanglakhat
• What Will I Be?
• Wind
• Gang Rape
• Tech-less Childhood
• Open Your Eyes
• Mistake
• Mom’s Hands
• Ocean of Love and Death
• Be Heard
• Being a Girl
• Victim of Tradition
• The Innocent Me
• God’s Tears
• Decent by Nature
• An Endless Ambition
• When There Is No Peace
• When I Feel Alone
• The Breeze
• A Buried Story
• An Eternal Journalist
• Lost Girl
• Lonely
• Clouds
• For Our President
• Love You
• Why Fear
• Voices from Jalalabad
• Gender Divide
• It Hurts Me
• They Do Love Me Too
• Me and Others
• Solidarity
• Violence Can Never Bring Peace
• The Pain Dress
• This Heart Cries
• On Your Own Alone
• Chai Sia
• Heart of a Warrior
• Don’t Embarrass Me
• First Daughter, Part 2
• Afghanistan My Poor Country
• The World in My Imagination
• Boom
• For Bamiyan
• Distances Between Us
• Do Not End This Poem
• For Peshawar
• Love Is in Exile
• Love Song of Winter
• Winter Reverie
• Lullaby
• All That an Afghan Girl Needs
• My Dear Sister
• Rainbow
• Doors
• Alive
• On International Women’s Day
• Wake Up and Walk
• Why Only a Day?
• Gun or Pen
• My Untouched Soul
• What I Know
• Love Took My Hand
• Welcoming Spring
• Fears
• I Am Sorry, My Sister
• Farkhunda’s Force
• I Moan
• I Am Farkhunda
• I Think…
• Promise
• To Today’s Man from Today‘s Woman
• Hands
• Don’t Let Mother Know
• The Rain
• No Tears
• Farkhunda Said
• Like This Long Night
• Flower on the Ground
• What Should I Write?
• The Woman in the Mirror
• The Purpose of Love
• Toilet Paper
• Letter to an Orphan
• My Valuable Jewel
• Break the Silence
• Bride
• The Biggest Sin
• A Dark Night
• These Days
• I’m Talking to You
• I Knew a Girl
• The Good Father
• Blue Dress of Sky
• Do You See What I See 
• Fed Up
• A Man Like No Other
• The Rain
• With You, Without You
• I Panic
• To My Mother
• My Pen, My Pride
• My Broom Sweeps the Dust
• I Write
• A Girl in the Masjid
• Daydreaming
• Attachment
• Heart Break
• Injured Soul
• Tell Me, Women of This Land
• Sense of Worth
• Woman of Our World
• Me and the Night
• Missing You More Than Anything
• War
• Shelter Me
• Dream Passion
• Almond Eyes (Chashm Badami)
• My Nightmare
• Sad News in Kabul
• Betrayal
• Lonely Souls
• I Am an Orphan But Not the Only One
• A World in Peace
• Waiting
• Friends
• Mother Land
• Talking to Myself
• My Pen Writes for Kunduz
• Good Fairies
• When the Monsters Come
• Free Kunduz from the Taliban!
• Taliban! Leave My Country
• My Town
• My Town
• Bloodshed in Kunduz
• White Flag
• White Flag
• Girl of War
• Our Souls
• Girl of War
• Our Souls
• Peace
• Under Burqa Is a Girl
• I Am Powerful
• Peace
• Under Burqa Is a Girl
• I Am Powerful
• Cries for My Country
• Cries for My Country
• In My Burqa Prison
• Let Us Try Peace
• I Want to Breathe
• Good Days Are Coming
• Stoning Rukhshana
• Please Hear Me
• Sound of Death
• Beyond Love
• Our Tears Fall
• My Warrior Country
• I Am a Hazara
• Picture of Black and White
• My Heart Hurts
• For Rukhshana!
• For Paris
• Girls Walking Home
• Welcome My Baby
• For Rukhshana
• We Are Human
• Seized Birds
• My Tired Voice Grows Loud
• Everyone’s House
• Enough of War and Pain
• The Innocents
• Why Am I Inside the Home?
• I Am Tired
• Daughter of My Motherland
• I Am a Woman
• You Left Me Here Lonely
• Hey Woman’s Enemy!
• My Pen
• Impossible Desire
• Buddha Collapsed out of Shame
• For the Girl Selling Gum
• I Can’t Forget
• My Country’s People Stand Up
• The Spring Changed to Fall
• My Hero
• Grab the Pen and Write
• We Could Change
• I Write
• Perfect Day
• A Hate Letter to the Taliban
• For TOLO TV
• Winter Comes
• For 2016
• Enjoying Winter Break
• To the Poor People of My Country in Winter
• Frozen Woman
• Differences
• Dust to Earth
• Fairytale
• What’s a Good Little Girl?
• Let Me Whisper to You…
• I Am Nahid
• My Sister, My Combat
• Stone Rain
• Child of Winter
• Turn on the News
• Even a Human Can Break
• Nowruz
• Disappeared in the Quiet Time
• Happiness
• My Heart Cries
• My Heart Wants
• TOLO = Thousands of Lights On
• No One Can Change His Mind
• Live Today
• Letter to the Taliban
• Safe Home
• Close My Eyes and Smile
• Woman Is Lost in History
• I Say No to War
• Migrant  Bird
• An Afghan Mother’s Pains
• Hear Me the World
• Mother Is Beauty and Light
• My Mother, My Hero
• I Wish
• Life Is Beautiful
• I Am an Afghan Girl
• Orphans of My Country
• Ms. Dreamer
• Letter to a Teaser Man in the Street
• A Good Citizen
• My School
• Court of the Desert
• In My Country
• Hear My Cry
• Peace
• Letter to a Bird
• Let You and Me
• Dream Tree
• Hope
• Mama Kabul
• The Blood of Afghans Cry and Mourn

Leeda

• The Children Were Waiting
• A Poppy Addict’s Story
• A Young Widow’s Dilemma
• The Lovely Province
• Letter From an Afghan Woman to Her Afghan Brothers
• Problems of a Widow
• Eight Daughters for Sale, the Oldest First
• A Love Marriage Without the Love
• I Am Female — in Other Words, Human
• I Want to Speak
• Snapshots from Herat
• The Big Wedding Party
• Reach High
• Leeda introduction
• Dear Mr. President
• Fears
• To Today’s Man from Today‘s Woman

Leena G.

• Crying the First Time
• Leena G. introduction
• It Could Be Me
• From Nangarhar: The Frightening Winter of 2016

Lena

• Lena introduction

Lima

• My First Exam
• I Have Dreamed of You So Much
• The Sorrow of War
• De Facto Partition: False Alternative for Afghanistan
• Dialogue about Sexism
• I Wish I Knew
• What Are Afghanistan’s Priorities?
• Don’t Ask a Man Who I Am
• Don’t Ask A Man Who I Am, part 2
• Lima introduction

Madia

• My Sister’s Wedding
• Widows Should Be Allowed to Remarry

Mahbooba

• The Good Father
• Going to School and Wishes
• Solace for the Children
• Where Heaven Is Found
• Ramadan, When the Rich and Poor Are Equal
• Nazi’s Wishes
• The Peace Officer
• A Girl Named Sahar
• Heaven Is Below a Mother’s Feet
• Good Teacher in Helmand
• My Grandfather’s Gift
• Literacy in Afghanistan
• Literacy in Afghanistan, part 2: Educating Girls and Women
• What Islam Says about Marriage
• One Important Day in School
• Helping a Landmine Victim Regain Hope
• The Risk in Selling a Daughter
• Mahbooba introduction

Mahmooda T.

• I Wish
• Mahmooda T. introduction

Mahnaz

• The Beast Within
• Blue Like The Sky, Beautiful Like The Ocean
• Mother, I Am Dying, Buy Me An Apple
• The Night of the Burn
• Your Oceanic Look
• Oh Eid, Sweet Eid!
• My Name Is Mahnaz
• Evening in Mashhad
• Snapshots from Home, Part I
• Snapshots from Home, Part II
• Snapshots from Home – Part III
• Turning the Soil
• You: My Beautiful Dream
• I Wish I Were a Bird
• A Lively Morning
• A Beautiful Woman
• Please Pray for My Friend
• Afghan Feminist Thought, part 1
• Afghan Feminist Thought, part 2
• Stamped as a Girl
• Afghan Feminist Thought, part 3
• First Comes Love…
• Attacked
• Victim of Virginity
• Victim of Virginity, part 2
• Prophet Muhammad Needs No Defenders
• Legitimizing Inequality
• The Horse-Cart Driver
• The Horse-Cart Driver, part two
• Women Are Not Like Honey
• In My Room
• My Early Life
• Living with the Taliban
• Missing You
• “Voice of Afghanistan” Singer Provokes Rude Commentary
• My Wild Imagination
• Dear Grandmother
• Beneath a Mother’s Feet
• Mahnaz introduction
• Stand Up for Your Rights: An Action Call to Women
• When We Were Kings and Queens
• My Father, Conqueror of My Heart
• Ocean of Love and Death
• My Glass Bangles Jingle on Eid
• The Dishonored Honor of Paghman
• An Eternal Journalist
• On Killing the Cartoonists
• How Women Feed the Patriarchy
• The Heartwarming Winter in Afghanistan
• Flower on the Ground
• When the Monsters Come

Mahsa

• Mahsa’s 16 Lines for 16 Days of Activism
• Mahsa introduction

Mahtab

• Mahtab introduction
• My Future Is Not My Sheep
• Hope Twinkles in a Dark Sky
• Afghanistan’s Street Children Can Be Future Heroes

Majabeen

• If I Were a Man
• A Girl Heartened by Life

Malalay

• We Are Forever Friends, in Kabul or Far Away
• Malalay introduction
• Even a Human Can Break

Maliha

• Smiling Face
• Stronger Than You Think
• Maliha introduction

Maliha W.

• My Heart Wants
• Maliha W. introduction
• I Am an Afghan Girl

Manizha

• Free Kunduz from the Taliban!
• Manizha introduction
• Women’s Roles Are Changing in Afghan Society
• Welcome My Baby

Mariam

• Traveling Alone
• The Grandmother Leader
• Talib Checkpoints on a Narrow Road
• Why Is Gender Violence Common?
• The Holiday Frenzy
• Kabul’s First Snow of 2012
• One Sunny Day
• Who Is She?
• Come Let Us Laugh
• Misery By Superstitious Tradition
• One Thing Missing in Our Country
• A Stronger Woman I Have Never Known
• Gender and Violence in Afghanistan
• Nearly Lost in Translation
• My Memory of One Afghan Mother and Daughter
• Real Wealth Is Love
• The Importance of Family
• Voices of Afghanistan: It’s Not about Clothing
• Many Meanings
• Power of Islam
• On a Sleepless Night I Dream of Peace
• A Lonely Rain
• In Peshawar, I Pray for Peace
• Eid Mubarak to My Family and May We Know Peace
• A Wish for Peace, New Year 2016

Mariam A.

• Badakhshan, My Land of Mountains and Mines

Mariam Y.

• There Is No Fairy Mother
• Cold-Hearted
• Bravery
• Mariam Y. introduction

Marvah

• The Two Finger Test
• Marvah introduction

Mary B.

• A Harsh and Beautiful Season

Maryam A.

• Warm Beds in Cold Weather
• America Imagined
• Memories of My Grandparents
• My Morning
• My University Days
• My School in Jawzjan
• My School in Jawzjan (part 2)
• The Ambitions of Children
• Am I Guilty for Being a Woman?
• Because She Is a Girl
• Kabul Nights
• Maryam A. introduction
• Don’t Embarrass Me

Maryam L.

• Standing Up To My Uncles, and Other Class Assignments
• My Neighborhood: Poor Yet Kind
• Maryam L. introduction

Maryam M.

• Boom
• Why Peace and Women’s Rights Matter
• Maryam M. introduction
• My Dear Sister
• Alive
• Gun or Pen
• Break the Silence

Maryam O.

• My Mother Taught Me to Be Strong
• Maryam O. introduction

Marzia

• Untitled
• Childhood Memory: Zainab’s Death
• A Calculated Risk
• A Letter to My Parents
• I Am Surviving
• The Burden of the Family Honor
• Afghan Women’s Rights: Will History Repeat Itself?
• Afghan Women’s Rights: “Shaming Your Father”
• Enter through One Door and Leave through Another
• Listen to Me
• What I Expect from My New President
• Halima Is My Hero
• Marzia introduction
• Lessons from My Mother
• War
• Why Fear
• Misunderstanding Rape
• International Human Rights Day 2014
• Winter Memories In Herat
• Men and Women Are Different
• Meeting First Lady Rula Ghani
• My Father’s Story: Tales of a Teacher and the Taliban
• Ancient City of Herat Turned 3,000 Years Old This Year
• No Honor in Honor Killing
• Dark Days

Marzia N.

• A Woman of Ambition
• Unanswered Questions
• Tomorrow’s Enemies
• Undefeated
• Why Forgive
• Making Voting a Family Affair
• Waking Up to Election Day in Afghanistan
• Marzia N. introduction
• Finding Equality Within
• We Are Similar, Yet Different

Marzila

• Memories of War and Horror
• Memories of War and Horror, part two
• Inheritance: A Push in the Right Direction
• Exchange for a Cow
• Exchange for a Cow, part 2
• Placeless Girl
• Marzila introduction

Masooda R.

• What I Know
• Masooda R. introduction
• Do We Care Enough about Justice for an Afghan Woman? 
• What Afghan Women Endure

Masooda S.

• On Surprises and Wishes
• Masooda S. introduction

Masooma

• Remember Fatema, a Young Girl Who Was Studying Law
• Come for Dinner at This Big House
• Baghlani Bread Girls
• The Secret Women’s Boxing Team
• My Dear Mom
• My Little Angel
• Have a Look at the Last Ten Years
• The Protest
• I Feed Myself
• Alone Girl Alone
• Wicked Witch
• Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
• Masooma introduction
• Gender Divide
• They Do Love Me Too
• I Knew a Girl

Masouma H.

• More Time Needed for Positive Change
• خاطرات من از ماه مبارک رمضان

Massoma

• Self-Immolation: Rahima’s Story
• The Herat Karate Team
• My School for Street Kids
• Child Bride
• On the Way to Snow
• The Woman District Governor
• Forgiveness: A Prose Poem
• Massoma introduction
• Hello My Dear President

Mazar writers (collaboration)

• Two Beautiful Words

Meena Z.

• Always a Hand to Wipe Tears
• Let Your Life Speak
• Whenever…

Metra

• !نوروز و میله های نوروزی

Mina M.

• The Price of Peace – Part I
• The Price of Peace – Part II
• The Price of Peace – Part III
• The Price of Peace – Part IV
• Survival
• Candle
• Remember Your Heart
• The Price of Peace – Part V
• Poverty
• Mina M. introduction
• No One Can Change His Mind

Mina T.

• Small Heart, Big Wishes
• My Heart at Night
• The Ladies’ Greenhouse Success Story
• Garden of Flowers
• A House Divided
• Seeking My Lucky Star in My Life
• Allah’s Gifts
• Sunrise
• The Dark Net
• Our Sons on the Field
• Once I Loved You
• The Yellow Paper Flower Sketch
• Sitara
• Mina T. introduction
• Snow
• Me and Others
• Love Took My Hand
• Sense of Worth
• War

Mona

• A Child’s Ramadan Fast
• Like Painting with Watercolors under Rain: Visiting India
• Going to College
• The Wonderful Yard
• Finding Independence
• Watch Out for Underage Drivers in Kabul
• Mona introduction

Mothers of AWWP Writers

• I Want to See Smiles Every Day
• AWWP Is About Proving Yourself
• My Girls Will Raise the Voices of Women
• My Daughters Show the World They Are Writers
• My Angel Is a Writer
• Mother’s Day 2015

N.

• Eyes of the Heart
• Sparrow and Sword
• How I Catch Love
• Eyes of the Heart
• A Universe of Love
• Lullaby
• Early Marriage: Selling the Daughters
• Early Marriage: Not the Only Destiny
• Angel Daughter
• Daughter of Nature
• The Only Lonely Woman
• The Road Is Full of Dust
• Under the Same Sky
• Mother of Brightness on Wings of Freedom
• What It Means to Be a Muslim Woman
• Honeymoon in the Graveyard
• The Wish
• Bring Me Light
• Under My Burqa
• Book

Nabila

• Enjoying Winter Break

Nadia

• Ibrahim’s Mistake
• A Father’s Choice
• Nadia introduction

Naheed

• The Purpose of Love
• Dream Passion
• My Warrior Country
• تعهد

Nahid W.

• Peace
• Under Burqa Is a Girl
• I Am Powerful
• Nahid W. introduction
• Peace
• Under Burqa Is a Girl
• I Am Powerful
• Nahid W. introduction
• Why Am I Inside the Home?
• What’s a Good Little Girl?
• Let Me Whisper to You…
• I Am Nahid
• Letter to the Taliban
• Orphans of My Country

Najia A.

• کودک فقیر

Najma

• Going Home to Afghanistan
• Najma introduction

Najwa

• For TOLO TV
• Najwa introduction
• Dust to Earth
• Letter to a Bird

Nasima

• Destiny Awaits: A Lyric Essay
• Illumination
• The Accidental Terrorist
• Born in an Iran Refugee Camp
• Murmurs Behind a Door
• The Marriage Castle of Hopes
• Murmurs
• Violence Breeds Violence
• Asefa’s Tent
• Black and White
• Kite Season!
• What Is My Crime?
• The Peace Season
• Life with Dander
• Teaching of Spring
• Hurry
• Love Lesson
• Depth Look at Child
• Oh, Seeker
• When the Nightingale Stopped Singing
• Football Is the Symbol of Peace
• A Girl in My Family
• When the American Soldiers Came
• Reality of Islam
• Hope for the Future
• A Hymn for Freedom
• A Reminder of the Last Afghan Elections
• When the Birds Sang of Freedom
• The Violence Lifted from My Shoulders When I Voted
• I Call to You, Oh Afghan Men!
• Look to the Universe
• In Search of a Champion
• What Happened to Equality?
• In One Nation Two Can Lead
• In One Nation Two Can Lead
• Lessons of Love and Forgiveness
• American Troops Please Stay
• Wake Up and Walk
• There Is No Justice in Afghanistan, Only Shouts and Curses
• Tell Me, Women of This Land
• Disappeared in the Quiet Time

Nasrin

• Stone Rain
• Nasrin introduction
• Safe Home

Nastaran

• My Only Fault Was Falling Asleep
• Nastaran introduction

Negina

• What’s Behind the Intractable Gender Gap in Afghanistan
• Negina introduction
• What Is the Future for an Afghan Boy Like Yousuf?

Nelab

• To My Teacher
• I Am a Sparrow
• Mother’s Love
• Missing My Mom
• Justice all over the World for Women
• Rose
• The Abandoned Family
• Conversation
• Why Can’t Tears Stop Your Violence
• My Puzzle
• Spring Had a Nice Feel after Voting
• Ode to the Afghan Soldier
• Nelab introduction
• Untitled
• Dream World
• My Ideal Dinner Guest

Nigin

• Never Give Up
• Nigin introduction

Nilab

• My Pen Writes for Kunduz
• !باغ خالی

Nilofar

• Fire
• Color of Hope
• Captive
• Fear
• Nilofar introduction
• Freedom

Niloofar

• I Write

Norwan

• Nest
• It Is Time to Go to School
• The Sky Is Not Blind!
• Sack of Winds
• If Life Repeats
• Be Brave, Sisters!
• The Taliban Rebound
• The World Has Escaped Us
• My Son
• Hamam Zamana
• To Live Like Angels
• Khastegari
• 9-11: When the End of the Taliban Began
• For the Homeless Soul
• I Am a Stone
• Take My Hands
• Eid Memories
• Let’s Talk
• Happiness
• Bedtime
• Little Boy
• The Voice of Sahar Gul
• Chocolate-Flavored Days
• Eyes of My Burqa
• Land of Fairies
• Lesson from a Thief
• Bachi Kocha at the Movies
• I Remember
• Today Is Different
• Women of My Country
• Help Us Build, But Stop the Killing
• The History Teacher and the Story of Rabia Balkhi
• Searching
• In My Girlish Dreams
• The Hope Revolution
• A Decision
• Mummy
• Lessons from Mother to Child
• An Afghan Woman’s Message to the NATO Conference
• Write for Kabul
• Afghan Fables: Ali and Wali
• Hope
• Empty Minutes
• Nameless Identity
• My Soul Is Alive
• I Would Wear Sunglasses If I Could Drive
• Shame on Taliban
• Afghan Fables: The Handless Man
• My Allah
• My Dearest Angel Father
• Traveling Tales
• Triumph
• Remember to Forget
• A World of Difference
• Rainy Eyes
• I Am Married with You, Afghanistan
• Dust off Our Hearts and Find Love
• Norwan introduction

Notes from Afghanistan

• Notes from Afghanistan, October 2011

Oral Stories Project

• Oral Stories Project
• A Stepdaughter’s Tale
• The First Wife
• A Life to Tolerate
• Something That Happened When I Was Young
• An Interview with Mena, Whose Husband Went off to War
• Oral Stories Project 2: Education (July 2013)
• Four Educated Women
• Married at Thirteen
• I Tell My Sons, “You Have to Study”
• My Son Sells Soup
• We Faced Taliban and Poverty
• I Don’t Want My Children to Become Like Us
• Oral Stories Project 1: Widows (March 2013)
• The Woman Who Changed Herat’s Silk Industry
• The Disabled Tailor
• Sharing My Craft Helps My Country
• Home Business Is a Family Affair for a Mother of Six
• A Girl Learns Independence Making Makroma Bafi
• Oral Stories Project 3: Women in Business (Sept. 2013)
• Telling Stories at the Sandaly
• Not All Must Be Forgiven
• My Father Taught Compassion
• Kindness Can Create a Good Life
• A Good Family Respects Elders
• Oral Stories Project: Voting to Make a Bright Future for My Children
• Oral Stories Project: We All Fear for the Future of Afghanistan
• Oral Stories Project: Taliban Made Many Widows in Afghanistan
• Oral Stories Project: Nothing Will Stop Me from Voting
• Oral Stories Project: President Must Think About the Mothers
• Oral Stories Project: I Pray to Allah the Best Man Wins
• Oral Stories Project: Taliban Is Not Our Enemy
• Oral Stories Project: Bring Peace and Jobs Please
• I Just Keep Delivering
• If You Go to Hospital You Will Regret It
• Multiple Wives Mean More Children
• Whatever Men Want Is What Happens
• Bamiyan Moms Want Both Boys and Girls
• A Private Hospital Birth
• First Time Pregnant: I Think Doctors Should Help
• One Daughter in a Happy Family
• The Herat Maternity Clinic
• Nine Children Enough for Young Mother
• Long Days of Ramadan
• Help Me with a Box of Oil
• Fasting Is Difficult with No Nourishment
• A Glass of Water
• Nothing to Put on a Napkin
• No Dates for Iftar
• Three Women in Kabul
• Oral Stories Project 6: Ramadan (July 2014)
• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
• Oral Stories Project: Help Raise Our Voice
• Oral Stories Project: Never Give Up
• Oral Stories Project: I Give My Daughters Happiness Now
• Oral Stories Project: The Story of My Family Is Gender Violence
• Oral Stories Project: Gender Violence Is Increasing
• Oral Stories Project: A Girl Is Denied Medical Treatment
• Oral Stories Project: The Nonsense Talk Creates Violence 
• Oral Stories Project: Two Wives
• Thank You for Listening to Our Voices
• A Woman’s Life Is So Violent
• A Brother Kills, His Sisters Pay the Price
• Human Rights Provide All Opportunities to Men
• I Am Just a Poor Woman
• Oral Stories Project 8: Human Rights
• Equal Rights Is Only a Slogan
• It Starts With Us
• Fear of Disgrace and Tumult
• No Rights for the Orphans
• Raise Your Voice
• Taliban Did Not Let Girls Go to School
• The Unequal Divide of Illiteracy
• Washing and Cleaning
• An Illiterate Maid Asks for Respect
• Happiness Is Feeling Safe One Day
• Do Not Stay Home: Go Out and Learn!
• Oral Stories Project 9: Our Daily Lives
• When I Go Outside I Wear the Blue Burqa
• My Brother Chose My Husband For Me
• I Had a Dream of Becoming Literate
• My Husband Follows Taliban Rules in Our House
• I Ask the Government: Please Hear Our Voices
• I Regret Forcing My Daughter to Marry at Sixteen
• A Baby Girl Is Sometimes Thrown Away in a Box
• The Teachers Inspire Me to Let My Girls Learn
• No Matter the Age, Women Are Always Victims of Violence
• Oral Stories Project 10: Women Under Burqa Talk About Women’s Rights
• Women Against Women: A Demonic Mother-in-Law
• Supporting Five Daughters Becomes a Woman’s Responsibility
• My Father Always Said “Just Learn to Cook”
• My Father Said He Loved My Brothers More Than Me
• Married at Twelve, a Fifty-Year-Old Mother Cannot Forgive
• Oral Stories 11: Illiterate Afghan Women Tell the Impact of Discrimination in Their Lives

Paana

• The Taliban and Daesh Use Us Like Toys
• Paana introduction
• Racist, Shame on You!

Pakiza

• Tears of a Woman, Part I
• Tears of a Woman, Part II
• We Will Rise
• She
• To My Loved One
• My Daughter, Yamna
• Dear Women of the World
• Imprisonment
• Memories
• I Can’t Coz It Was Always You…
• Mother
• The Decision
• Pakiza introduction
• Broken Glass
• For Our President
• Putting on the Hijab

Pari

• Broken
• Pari introduction
• Afghanistan: Between Fears and Hopes
• Laughter to My Lips
• Equality
• Laughter to My Lips
• Good Morning, Madar Jaan!
• Afghan Woman
• Mrs. Beautiful and Mr. Nice
• Cradle of Violence
• Shame on Taliban
• Violence Can Never Bring Peace
• Chai Sia
• Do Not End This Poem
• Zemestan hay Kabul!
• My Untouched Soul
• Burning Farkhunda, Burning Our Beliefs
• My Voice Is My Action
• Toilet Paper
• Blue Dress of Sky
• In the Old Ramadan, a Girl’s Prayers Went Unheard
• My Pen, My Pride
• My Broom Sweeps the Dust
• I Write
• Sad News in Kabul
• Taliban! Leave My Country
• I Wish You Knew How I Loved You, My Brother
• I Wish You Knew How I Loved You, My Brother
• The Mask of Jihad
• Our Tears Fall
• For Rukhshana!
• For Paris
• I Can’t Forget
• Frozen Woman
• My Dear Mahram (part 2)
• My Dear Mahram (part 1)
• My Dear Mahram (part 3)
• Turn on the News
• Behind the Curtains at the Hospital
• What Is a Good Mother?

Past Events

• Out of Silence

Photos

• Photographs by Ellaha
• Photographs by Seeta
• Photographs by Zarlasht
• Photographs by Roya
• Snapshots from Herat

Poem of the Day

• New Year

Provinces of Afghanistan

• Ghazni, Land of the Kings
• Ancient City of Herat Turned 3,000 Years Old This Year
• Beautiful Parwan: Place of My Dreams
• My Warrior Country
• Badakhshan, My Land of Mountains and Mines
• Street Children of Herat
• Visit to Forgotten Dasht-e-Barchi—Land of Hope (pt. 2)
• Visit to Forgotten Dasht-e-Barchi—Land of Hope

Rabia A.

• Qudsia’s Three Children
• The Women’s Vote
• Five Sisters
• For Nilab, Forced to Marry at Thirteen
• Marriage Tradition and a Murder
• Rabia A. introduction
• Is Unity More Than a Slogan?
• Heart of a Warrior
• The Day I Began Writing Poetry

Rabia J.

• Theater Under a Blanket (part 1)
• Theater Under a Blanket (part 2)
• Cursed Baby
• Life Stops for Nothing
• Life Stops for Nothing, part two
• Rabia introduction

Raha

• The Streets Are Also Mine
• Raha introduction
• The Biggest Sin
• Kabul Artist in Body Armor Makes Street Harassment a Public Issue
• Missing You More Than Anything
• Beautiful Parwan: Place of My Dreams
• Raha introduction
• For the Girl Selling Gum
• To the Poor People of My Country in Winter
• Live Today
• Visit to Forgotten Dasht-e-Barchi—Land of Hope (pt. 2)
• Visit to Forgotten Dasht-e-Barchi—Land of Hope

Rahela

• Tomes
• The Good Wife
• The Explosion in the Middle of an Exam
• Dream World
• A Woman’s Struggle to Work
• Lend Me Kindness; I Will Return Twice of It!
• God’s Creations
• Steps Along My Path
• The Mulberry Tree
• My Childhood, part 1
• My Childhood, part 2
• If I Were an Artist
• Mud Puddle Puppy
• You Are a Woman, Do Not Tell Anyone!
• Break the Rule
• Angry Mountain
• A Mistake
• Culture Shock: Pet Vaccines and Bikinis

Roqaia

• Candidates Make Promises for Women’s Vote

Roya

• A Suicide Attack and a Job Interview
• Eyes – a Poem
• Childhood
• Karima – a Poem
• Life!
• Four Poems
• Smile of Stars – A Poem
• Share Love
• Moment of Patience
• Three Poems
• Bloom!
• Be Proud, America
• Wedding or Jail?
• Soup of Eggs
• My Sister’s Golden Hair
• Dad
• A Year
• Night of Lovers
• A Blue Dream
• Math Class with Tanya
• You Are My Poems
• 1+1=1
• Which Election?
• Cheap Tears
• Sitara
• Dreams like Sugar
• Where the Wild Dogs Were
• A Special Request
• Night
• Come Back
• Poems: To My Daughter / Pain Breath / Again in Front of You
• Remembering Fifteen
• My Pen
• Smell of Your Shirt
• House Works
• Zeba Gul’s Bakery
• The Cemetery of My Identity
• Once Upon a Time
• 1-2-3
• Playing With Questions
• Your Maid
• But Not an Afghan Woman
• International Women’s Day
• Feathers of Freedom, Washed Away
• Let the World Know
• Son of Sins
• The Book
• Mistake
• Ice Cream: The Secret Password
• Hey, Humans!
• The Smile of the Pomegranate Tree
• Offer Me Three
• If I Were You
• Melody of Love
• Golden Moments & Green Seconds
• The Evening Walk, The Wild Looks
• My Eyes
• The Meaning of Democracy
• Damn!
• An Afghan Poet
• Picture of a Laptop
• The Grave Is Always Silent
• The Kitchen
• River Promise
• After Ten Minutes!
• Highways
• Museum of Memories
• Sorry
• Forgive Me, River!
• My Shadow
• A World of Luck
• My Crazy Room
• If I Don’t Write
• Photographs by Roya
• Roya introduction

S Anonymous

• Voters’ Fears Lift after Kerry’s Visit
• S Anonymous introduction
• A Lovely Evening at Home
• My Journey Toward Knowledge
• Going Home Again
• Teaching Math Didn’t Add up Right
• My First Job
• God-Conferred Human Rights
• My Brother’s Wedding
• We Grieve with Pakistan
• Riding a Bicycle, a Forbidden Joy
• For Bamiyan
• Change for a New Generation
• Wake Up Against the Taliban
• The Goat and the Butcher
• Letter to an Orphan
• I’m Talking to You
• Mami, Bobo, Maman, Heaven Is Under Your Feet
• My Nightmare
• Eid Brings Us Happiness and Laughter
• Good Fairies
• What I Learned When We Escaped the Taliban
• What I Learned When We Escaped the Taliban
• Cries for My Country
• Cries for My Country
• An Earthquake Reminds Us That Life Is Brief
• Sound of Death
• To Stay or Leave Afghanistan a Difficult Choice for Many
• My Heart Hurts
• We Are Human
• Afghans Want Justice All Over Our Country
• Hey Woman’s Enemy!
• When Will We Have Peace?
• We Could Change
• Our Armies in Bamiyan Need Help to Stop the Taliban
• Nowruz
• The Virtues of Being Single
• Letter to a Teaser Man in the Street
• A Good Citizen
• My School
• Court of the Desert

Sabera

• My Father’s Dream

Sabira

• The Garden of My Homeland (Clothed in Blood and Fear)
• Spring Flowers
• Shouting for Their Rights
• The Indignant Heart of a Mother
• The Gift of My Birthday
• An Old Woman’s Advice
• To Laugh
• Sabira introduction

Sadaf

• The Tradition That Killed Sahar
• Sadaf introduction

Sadia

• Sadia introduction
• The Candidate from Kandahar

Sadia S.

• Decent by Nature
• Lost Girl
• The Pain Dress
• This Heart Cries
• Sadia S. introduction
• Why Only a Day?
• Farkhunda Said

Safa

• Peace

Safia

• A Special Eid Celebration
• Winter School Days in Kandahar
• I am…
• From Kandahar to Kabul—May 2, 2010
• Forced Marriage – Shame of Divorce
• Safia introduction

Safia R.

• My Strength
• Spring Garden
• Brothers
• Snow
• Stupid Wife
• Don’t Shout on Me
• Being a Girl
• Studying Girl
• Safia R. introduction
• Turning 18 Is Different in Afghanistan

Safia S.

• I Was Waiting

Saifora

• My Trip Alone
• What He Left Us With
• The US Embassy Attack
• Who I Love Most
• Jirgas, Warriors, and Other Afghan Traditions
• The Happy Future
• Why We Need Afghan Women in Business
• I Have a Dream
• Islamic Law, and Disobedience
• A Father’s Love
• Uncertainty of the Heart
• My Mother’s Extraordinary Life
• Elections: My Point of View
• Saifora introduction
• A Woman Is…
• On Marriage and Forgiveness
• Behind the Mottos an Identity
• Living with the In-Laws  
• What Should the President Talk About?
• Tears in Kabul
• Inbox: Secret of Happy Living
• If I Were Afghanistan’s First Lady
• The Woman in Me Is My Mother
• Ramadan: Blessings for Humanity 

Salma

• First-Born
• Salma introduction
• Spring Memories
• My Point of View
• Baad

Sameya

• Watching the News
• Sameya introduction

Sana A.

• The Tradition of Baad
• Escape From The Taliban
• Sana A. introduction

Sana S.

• Walking, One Hand at a Time
• A Disabled Girl
• I Wish I Could
• Sana S. introduction
• Always in My Heart
• You
• A Promise to My Friend
• A Garden Full of Flowers

Sara

• Sara introduction
• Suffering In Silence
• Powerless to Protest
• It Could Happen to Me
• When It’s Day There It’s Night in Afghanistan
• Not All Is Forgiven
• How I Catch Love
• The Shared House

Sayara

• Get Up!
• Sayara introduction
• Who Will Be President?
• It Hurts Me
• Afghanistan My Poor Country
• The World in My Imagination
• I Am Sorry, My Sister
• Don’t Let Mother Know
• Bride
• These Days
• Fed Up
• I Panic

Seema K.

• From the Moment I First Felt Alive
• Wait for the Shine
• Today I Want
• My Heart Asked Why?
• The Dream Said

Seeta

• Women are Moving Forward in Farah
• Mother’s Day with Happiness and Tragedy
• Taking a Chance
• Our Fault In This World
• My Dream World
• A Walk
• U.S. Ambassador’s Wife Promises to Seek Funds for Girl’s School
• Election Day in Farah
• Disabled and Working in Afghanistan
• Powerful Farmer, Leader—and Mother
• Gunmen Attack, Burn, School
• Friday, a Bloody Day
• Growing Saffron, Not Opium
• I Think About Poor Children
• Work Project in Farah
• Female Karate Teacher Breaks Barriers
• One Day’s Battle
• A Widow Defies Tradition
• Winter Day, 2008
• Farah Marks Women’s Day
• New Councilwomen Break Barriers In Farah
• Poultry Project Helps Women Put More Eggs in Their Baskets
• Seeta introduction
• Under Burqa
• The Journey from Farah to Herat—A Different Road
• A Mother Expecting Still
• In My Country
• Doing Nothing Wrong
• The Burqa Bride
• Dear Men
• Please Keep Me In Jail
• The Struggle to Make Ends Meet
• First Meal in Iran
• A Bold Step For Afghan Women Journalists
• Life Is Difficult Here For Me
• Electricity Comes To Farah
• The Meaning of Freedom
• Herat Woman Turns Tragedy into Determination
• Eid For the Rich, Not For Us
• Hands to Hold My Hands
• All Here Are Animals
• A Moment to Laugh
• Behind Bars
• The Incorrect Tradition
• Broken Dream
• I Prefer to Be Called a Woman
• I Am Tired Today
• Why Return to Afghanistan?
• I Saw a Woman, with Water in Her Hands
• In Ghōr, Women’s Voices Still Unheard
• Photographs by Seeta
• Stop Violence Against Women
• She Is Gone Now
• Let Us Forgive Now
• Mark My Word—Spread My Words
• I Am Alone
• The Problem of Love Marriages
• Where Am I?
• I Am a Girl
• Star
• A Different Kind of Day
• Doors
• On International Women’s Day
• Women’s Roles Are Changing in Afghan Society
• Stoning Rukhshana

Shafiqa

• My Friend Frishta
• Shafiqa introduction
• The Kingdom of the Moon
• The Performance
• Victim of Male Domination
• Ocean of Disappointment
• No One…
• The Chess Game
• Beauty
• I Cry
• Departure…
• Lost
• Guardian Angel
• Obama’s Speech: A Warning Alarm
• Desire
• The Marriage Court
• An Afghan Girl Foresees a Risky Future
• The Marriage Court, part two
• Pens and Patience
• Deserted by the Sun
• The Fourth Child
• Revolt
• Since You Left
• Defining the Women’s Vote in Afghanistan
• Forgotten by God
• Sabera’s Story of Resistance
• Love Is in Exile
• Injured Soul
• Four Brothers Sell Their Sister for $20,000
• Gender Violence Follows a Refugee Across the Continent
• Mama Kabul

Shahida

• First Daughter
• Freedom
• Be Heard
• First Daughter, Part 2

Shahira

• Going to School in Kandahar
• Brave Girl
• Leaving Afghanistan for a New Country
• My Country’s People Stand Up

Shahira E.

• Ms. Dreamer
• Shahira E. introduction

Shahla G.

• Close My Eyes and Smile
• Shahla G. introduction

Shahlla

• My Tired Voice Grows Loud

Shakiba N.

• In My Country
• Shakiba N. introduction

Shakila

• The Ground Shook: A Bomb in Kabul
• Shakila introduction
• Recipe for a Protest
• Cultural Kaleidoscope
• I Want My Old Dari Back
• Afghanistan’s Health Care
• Returning to Afghanistan
• The Different Daughter

Shama

• Internet Bringing a Magical Change to Afghan Girls
• Shama introduction
• The Persistence of Zarghona

Sharefa

• This Evening
• Waiting
• Leave
• My Day Is Full of Luck
• Life Is Two Days
• Peace

Shekiba

• It Is a Frightening Life in a Violent Patriarchal Society 
• Shekiba introduction
• For Rukhshana
• My Hero

Shiva

• ازدواج نا تمام

Shogofa

• The Smell of Rice
• Dream of My Mother
• Women Walking Alone
• Kill Silence
• Music of My Childhood
• The Walk
• Don’t Leave Me Alone
• Take the Pen: Write a New Future
• Leaving Home for Kabul
• Change Our Story
• Golden Season
• Adjectives
• Winter Wind
• Who Will Stop The Crimes?
• Shogofa introduction
• You Told Me, Mum
• Come Together
• Dear President Obama
• Not Alone
• Someone Told Me
• Life Leaves Us Turn By Turn
• When Can I See?
• Who Am I?
• I Want to Fly in the Sky
• Stop Crying My Heart
• Today I Want To Cry
• If You Want My Picture, Pay Me
• What Can I Give You, My Friend?
• The Mirror
• Love
• For Last and For Ever
• Talk to Me
• Hide
• Let Me Grow Up
• Get Up
• Awakened
• Beggar of Education
• My Parents’ Dream Was an Education for Me
• The Window
• Little Flowers
• Hands to Hold
• Together
• My Afghan People
• Away from You
• Now, I Know
• Peace Is a Dream in My Land
• I Am an Afghan Woman
• Dad, I Miss You
• Tonight Is My Night
• Child of War
• Wind
• Change Begins at Home
• The Woman in the Mirror
• I Am an Orphan But Not the Only One
• Grab the Pen and Write

Shogofa Az.

• What I Learned from My Friends
• Shogofa Az. introduction
• Five Things About Women
• My Mother and Me
• When I Was Seventeen
• My Beautiful and Lovely Kandahar
• Give Afghan Women Credit for Their Strength
• Eid, My Favorite Holiday
• Being a Girl in Afghanistan
• I Dream of a Healthy Afghan Society
• Take Responsibility for Peace
• Making a Better World for Girls
• Making a Better World for Girls
• When Will There Be Peace in Afghanistan?
• When Will There Be Peace in Afghanistan?
• Many Sides to Gender Violence in Afghanistan
• I Want the Foreign Troops to Stay and Help Afghanistan
• Afghan Women Can Break Gender Stereotypes
• Child of Winter
• TOLO = Thousands of Lights On
• An Afghan Mother’s Pains

Shokria

• My Younger Self Would Be Surprised at Me
• What an Afghan Girl Learned when the Schools Closed
• Was There Corruption in the Court?
• I Always Try to Be Happy
• My Laptop, a Gift from My Parents
• Everyone Says Eid Mubarak! During This Holiday
• Good Days Are Coming
• The Power of Reading a Good Book
• Celebrating Spring, Our New Year
• Shokria introduction
• I Say No to War
• The Most Influential Woman I Know

Sitara

• Peace? I Have Only Heard of It
• My Father, My Teacher
• My New Future Leaders Club
• The Men Who Would Sell Their Wives
• The Corruption Problem
• Where Has All the Money Gone?
• How to Change Afghanistan
• Who Causes Violence and Panic?
• Fighting for Women’s Rights at Kabul University
• Fighting for Women’s Rights at Kabul University, part 2
• Gulniz, Victim of Violence
• Escape Abroad: Afghans Leave Their Country
• The Taliban Committed Suicide Near My Office Today
• On My Way to University
• Why the Girls Get Sold
• Islam and the Anti-Violence Law
• The Conservative Jihad on our Media
• I Apologize
• A Tale of Two Teenagers: Malala and Anisa
• In Lament of Gaza
• Love Song of Winter
• The New Fears in Kabul
• Farkhunda’s Force
• Hands
• The Flawed Trial of Farkhunda’s Killers
• Afghan Men Can Wear Underwear in Public but a Woman Cannot Wear a Short Dress
• Woman of Our World
• The Unfulfilled Dream of the Afghan Human Rights Queen
• My Town
• My Town
• When the Earthquake Struck in Kabul on Monday
• Two Girls, Same Destiny: Rukhshana and Farkhunda
• Seized Birds
• Winter Comes
• Let You and Me

Sitara B.

• Hope, Fear, Wish
• One Day Is Today
• Wake Up, Don’t Be Silent
• The Afghan Dilemma
• A Barbaric Tragedy
• The Office Argument
• Bird
• I Know a Woman
• Who Can Win? What the Campaign Slogans Don’t Say
• Mother
• Who Is This Moon?
• Anxiety Builds as Votes Are Counted
• More Parliamentary Greed
• Flood Is on the Way
• Gang Rape
• Open Your Eyes
• An Endless Ambition
• When I Feel Alone
• Solidarity
• Women Not Welcome at the University Mosque
• The Gap That Leads to Terrorism
• I Saw the Hell
• The Power of Our Pens: American U. to Build a Mosque for Women
• Sitara B. introduction

Sonam

• Sonam introduction

Spanish translations

• Spanish translations of AWWP stories and poems

Spozhmai

• Honesty Can Bring Peace: Allah Told Us Honesty Is Essential
• Spozhmai introduction

Storay K.

• Storay K. introduction
• Waiting for Justice at the Women’s Affairs Office
• Disabled Afghans Discuss Marriage in Herat
• خانه عکس آبنوس
• خانه عکس آبنوس
• زنان معتاد در هرات
• بانوی مدال آورهرات
• افغانستان؛ دشوارترین جا برای نوشتن، نامناسب ترین کشور برای نویسنده

Sudaba

• Disabled, But Able
• Grandfather’s Last Letter
• A Policeman, a Survey, and a Birthday
• Little Girl
• Sudaba introduction
• Tech-less Childhood

Suhaila

• Registering Voters in the Northern Villages

Sumaia

• Bringing in the New Year in Mazar-e-Sharif
• Sumaia introduction
• Like This Long Night
• Girls Walking Home
• The Station

Supporter Spotlight

• Supporter Spotlight: Bill Woolley

Surina

• How the Media Encourages ISIS

Sveto

• The Goodbye Moment
• Sveto introduction
• Lullaby
• Seeking Justice for Farkhunda
• Did Young Voters Sway the Presidential Elections?
• A Dark Night
• A Good Father, a Hero
• A Girl Who Ran Away: Fatima’s Story
• A Girl in the Masjid
• Talking to Myself
• Bloodshed in Kunduz
• The Short Life of Khadija Who Was Forced to Marry
• Fairytale
• I Want to Break the Gender Stereotypes in Afghanistan
• Life Is Beautiful

Tabasom

• Smile
• The Winter of My Country
• Do You Know?
• Tabasom introduction
• Far From You
• Advice to My Heart
• First Words
• If You Kill Me
• Night
• I Wish My Country Was Not My Love
• My Village
• Thinking of You
• Gold Hidden in the River
• I Saw You
• Where Have You Gone?

Tabasom Memorial

• Remembering Tabasom

Tamana M.

• Gender Violence Comes in Many Forms
• Women Are Angels

Tamana W.

• First Poem
• Tamana W. introduction
• My Friend

Teenage Writers Workshop

• Burqa
• Teenage Writers Workshop, May 2013
• My Friend
• First Daughter
• Two Boys and Their Mother
• Going to School in Kandahar
• Explosions at School
• Brave Girl
• A Girl in Boy’s Clothes
• Dear Readers
• Winter in Kandahar
• The Burden of Being a Girl
• Talking with Flowers
• Life
• The Story of Rabia Balkhi
• The Story of Nadia
• My Sisters and Me
• My Mother Said Be Happy
• Big Land
• Teenage Writers Workshop, August 2013
• When I Was Seven
• School Friends
• Cook a Potato
• Power Means Not Killing
• What Is?
• The Streets Will Be Washed by Rain
• The Cause of Violence Is Money
• The Worldly Butterfly
• Like a Breeze
• Teenage Writers Workshop, February 2014
• I Will Be Brave
• Happiness Is a Baby (Sister)
• Oh My Allah…
• A Poem for My Country
• Don’t Call Me Names
• What Is a “Good Girl” in Afghanistan?
• Three Wishes
• Two Brides and Their Mother-in-Law
• Does a Headscarf Define the Girl?
• A Bright and Funny Girl Named Sitara
• Teenage Writers Workshop, May 2014
• Oh, Baba Sahib
• When I Was Young
• Girl Up—on a Bike
• Surfer, Rock Climber, Gymnast
• Mazar My Homeland
• Orphan Girl
• Taliban Attack Outside My School
• Rain
• I Want to Be an Astronaut
• Beauty of Sanglakhat
• What Will I Be?
• Teenage Writers Workshop, September 2014

Uncategorized

• April Is National Poetry Month in the USA
• Fatima Sa. introduction
• Friba introduction
• International Day of the Girl
• Miss Connie (Persian language)
• Site map
• International Day of the Girl
• Dari test RTL
• Oral Stories Project

We Write for Kunduz

• My Pen Writes for Kunduz
• When the Monsters Come
• The Taliban’s Attack on Kunduz
• Free Kunduz from the Taliban!
• Taliban! Leave My Country
• Bloodshed in Kunduz
• Girl of War
• Girl of War
• Cries for My Country
• When Will There Be Peace in Afghanistan?
• When Will There Be Peace in Afghanistan?
• Cries for My Country
• Residents Fled When Taliban Attacked

Winter in Afghanistan

• A Harsh and Beautiful Season
• Winter Comes
• Snow Brings Hope, But Storms Are Perilous in the Mountains
• Enjoying Winter Break
• To the Poor People of My Country in Winter
• Differences
• Winter Has Two Faces
• Winter of 2016 Filled with Snow and Terror
• Fairytale

Yagana

• The Fearful Celebration
• Coming Home
• The Kandahar Lawyer
• You Were The One…
• Waiting
• Saliha’s Rape
• The Crime of Falling in Love
• Afshan
• Part of Our Lives Now
• Yagana introduction
• Grandma’s Kitchen
• My Dream
• My Mother’s Cancer
• Betrayal
• Lonely Souls
• Waiting
• Friends
• Our Souls
• Our Souls

Yalda J.

• Mini-Mal
• Yalda J. introduction
• A Glimpse of Naveed, the One with the Uncombed Hair
• Life
• End of Semester in Kabul
• If Love Took Over My Country
• How I Catch Love
• Destiny’s Choices
• Never Think It’s Too Late
• Once in a While
• Rainbow

Yalda N.

• Waiting for the Earthquake
• Today My Heart Cries
• Voting
• For You, Dad
• Joy and Grief in Rain
• My Mother’s Day
• Osama’s Breaking News Woke Me
• Ramadan Kareem
• Islamabad on 9-11
• From Islamabad on 9-11 to Herat on 9-21
• A Prayer for Grandmother
• Love in Afghanistan
• Orange Day Every Day

Zahra A.

• Zahra A. introduction
• Hope for Afghan Women
• Long Wait to Iftar When You’re Young
• Aftab, Whom I Am Proud Of
• Cry for the Beautiful Land
• The Eidi Gift
• Freedom
• A Passenger
• I Am a Leaf
• Beneath the Dust
• Women Must Create Change Themselves
• The Gift
• A Brave Woman
• But…
• An Orphan’s Hope
• Daughter of War
• My Country, My Pride
• Small Reasons Add Up to Becoming a Feminist

Zahra Ab.

• Woman Is Lost in History
• Zahra Ab. introduction

Zahra H.

• My Multilingual Country
• Zahra H. introduction
• A Man Like No Other
• The Rain
• I Did Not Want to Marry That Boy
• Almond Eyes (Chashm Badami)
• A World in Peace
• Mother Land
• White Flag
• White Flag
• Please Hear Me
• The Taliban in My Dream
• I Am a Hazara
• Everyone’s House
• I Am Tired
• Daughter of My Motherland
• I Am a Woman
• You Left Me Here Lonely
• Buddha Collapsed out of Shame
• Winter of 2016 Filled with Snow and Terror
• Happiness
• My Heart Cries

Zahra M.

• Behind the News: A Herat Mother Hears the Bombs Go Off
• Zahra M. introduction
• The Traffic Policewoman of Herat
• Society Ritual
• Nameless in Afghanistan
• The Sheepskin Factory
• A Woman Named Arefah
• An Educated Mother
• An Afghan Girl’s Feelings About Life
• Shadow on My Wall
• One Repeat
• Mahtab, Victim of Forced Marriage
• The Blank Vote
• Hope for Spring in Our Hearts
• Is My Life My Right?

Zahra T.

• Brave and Strong Afghan Women, Raise Your Voices!
• Zahra T. introduction
• My Mother, the Mirror of Justice

Zahra W.

• I Moan
• Zahra W. introduction
• Their Hearts Were Made of Stone
• What Should I Write?
• My Life Guide
• The Good Father
• People Wanted the Death Penalty for Farkhunda’s Killers
• Why Good Girls Never Choose Love
• The Way They Keep Afghan Girls out of School
• The Way They Keep Afghan Girls out of School
• Enough of War and Pain
• My Pen
• Taliban Attacks Must Not Prevent Our Freedom of Speech
• It’s Been a Difficult Year for Women in Afghanistan
• Migrant  Bird
• My Mother, My Hero
• Hear My Cry
• To Stay or to Go: Which Is More Dangerous?

Zainab

• Zainab introduction
• Igneous Weather
• Rain’s Owner
• An Afghan at the Orooj School
• Sky Is the Nest of Swallows
• Teach the Children
• Thirsty Wolves and Love
• Women in Our Economy
• Women in Our Economy, part 2
• Disabled and Poor: The Education Gap
• Is Studying Astronomy an Impossible Wish?
• Glimpse of Love
• Raise Your Voice for Women’s Sports

Zakia H.

• How Elections Use Quotas for Women
• Zakia H. introduction
• Dividing the Power for Unity

Zakia N.

• The Scent of Mint

Zakia S.

• My Country

Zamarad

• Promise
• Zamarad introduction
• Perfect Day

Zarghoona

• Kandahar Fire

Zarghuna

• Brave Lady: Linda Norgrove

Zarlasht F.

• My Exchange Year

Zarlasht W.

• One of My Worst Memories
• From Idyllic Life To War
• A Look at Education in Afghanistan
• Zarlasht introduction
• Photographs by Zarlasht

Zeinab

• The First Lesson
• Morning Irony

Zohra W.

• Arrive to Culmination
• Zohra W. introduction

Zuhal

• Sweet Bird
• Zuhal introduction
• Me and the Night

curriculum

• If Love Took Over My Country
• Small Heart
• Hurry
• Learn from the Gardener
• A Universe of Love
• I Apologize

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ورکشاپ دری

• خاطرات من از انتخابات گذشته
• انتخابات 1393 و زنان
• کمبود مراکز توزیع کارت در هرات
• ۱۳۹۳ اهمیت انتخابات
• !جوابم را بده مادر
• انگیزه عشق
• برنامه ستاره افغان
• ازدواج معلول و غير معلول
• عشق
• دیداری دیگر از بامیان باستان
• یا من، یا هیچ کس
• بی تو با تو
• پیراهن داغدار
• تجاوز به زنان افغان در پغمان
• !خدایا! به داد قربانیان حادثه پغمان برس
• حادثه پغمان جنایت فراموش نشدنی
• پناهم ده
• ذوق خيال
• من و شب
• ملت سلحشورم افغانستان
• محدودم مکن
• دلسردی
• :برد تیم کریکت افغانستان خبر خوش برای تمام افغانها
• درد همیشگی
• ‎افغانستان را خود ما بسازیم
• سرود صلح
• گردباد
• آیا انسانیت مرده است؟
• :خواهرم فرخنده
• دختربهشت
• مادر
• درحسرت صلح
• عدالت کجاست؟
• چرا زن باید قربانی شود؟
• !تجلیل از روز مادر
• مرمر خيال
• قصه ای نا تمام
• گریز از انجماد غصه
• !زرغونه بعد از سی سال شنوا یی اش را بدست آورد
• باد های بی رحم
• !کاش دختر نمی بودم
• گمشده
• هواى عيد
• ندای قلم برای کندز
• درد کندز، درد من
• نام تو
• دعا
• همسایه
• نام تو
• دعا
• همسایه
• فضای مصلو ب
• آیا مهاجرت مشکل افغانها را حل می کند؟
• کندز
• کودک تنها 
• آسمان
• :خوشی های زندگی من
• زیبای کابل
• !آزادم کن
• !می نویسم
• باران
• تپش قلب
• :برقع پوشش فراگیر زنان هراتی
• :زلزله ویران‌گر
• دیده نگران
• :فرار افغان ها به خارج کشور
• زبان پارسی
• !بگذار خودم باشم
• محبت
• انتحار
• یک صلوات به شهیدان جاغوری
• :طویانه های کمرشکن و رسم های ناپسند
• :طویانه های کمرشکن و رسم های ناپسند
• هفت تن شهید ما
• !دختر سنی با پسر شیعه عروسی نمی تواند
• درد دل
• :خشونت علیه زنان درد بی درمان در افغانستان
• :دلایل خشونت علیه زنان در افغانستان
• :ستاره درخشان
• :آغازی دوباره
• :تقدیم به مادرم
• :من برده نیستم، من انسانم
• !پدر مهربانم
• :زندگی من، کتاب و قلمم است
• بیا و مرد باش
• :فاصله
• :آسمان غم
• آرزو
• تجلیل از روز عاشقان در افغانستان
• زن مجبور
• امید
• :گمشده
• خانه عکس آبنوس
• خانه عکس آبنوس
• ترس
• امید
• زنان معتاد در هرات
• !سنگ مزن، آتش مزن
• هشتم مارچ روز جهانی زن‘
• بانوی مدال آورهرات
• تعهد
• !باغ خالی
• افغانستان؛ دشوارترین جا برای نوشتن، نامناسب ترین کشور برای نویسنده
• برای صلح
• :می خواست با شوهرم عروسی کند، برایش گفتم او زن دارد
• !بهار زیبا خوش آمدی
• ازدواج نا تمام
• کودک فقیر
• …برادرم می گفت: دوچرخه سواری نکن، آبروی من می ریزد
• !نوروز و میله های نوروزی
• !کنارم بمان
• آدم نما
• شب بی سحر
• شادمانی
• خاطرات من از ماه مبارک رمضان