.: UICS - Malalai Joya :.

:: Malalai Joya ::

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Dear Friends
September 23, 2009

Tree Planting
July 31, 2009

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The anniversary of 18th Tir movement
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The memory of those who
gave their lives for freedom!
June 26, 2009

Malalai Joya born April 25, 1978 is an Afghan politician who has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has publicly denounced the presence of what she considers warlords and war criminals in the parliament.
In May 2007, Joya was suspended from the parliament on the grounds that she had insulted fellow representatives in a television interview. Her suspension, which is currently being appealed, has generated protest internationally and appeals for her reinstatement have been signed by high profile writers, intellectuals such as Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, and politicians including Members of Parliament from Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. Joya has been compared to the symbol of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi.
According to an article in Publishers Weekly, Joya is currently writing a memoir with Canadian writer Derrick O'Keefe. The US and Canadian version of the book is due to be published in October 2009 by Scribner under the title of A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice in 224 pages. (Source)
You may find more information about her at Malalai Joya website

Malalai Joya doing a radio interview from her hotel room in Halifax, NS. November 2009
Malalai Joya was our guest on Sunday November 22, 2009.
You can listen to Radio Payam’s interview with Malalai here.
And all other our guests Interviews from HERE.

To read the interview
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