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Nordland, Rod.
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Man-woman relationships -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women's rights -- Afghanistan.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Afghanistan -- Biography.
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Nordland, Rod.
Man-woman relationships -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women's rights -- Afghanistan.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Afghanistan -- Biography.
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The
lovers
:
Afghanistan
's
Romeo
and
Juliet
: the
true
story
of
how
they
defied
their
families
and
escaped
an
honor
killing
/ Rod Nordland.
by
Nordland, Rod.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2016.
Call #:
958.1047 N832L
Subjects
Man-woman relationships --
Afghanistan
-- Biography.
Women --
Afghanistan
-- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women'
s
rights --
Afghanistan
.
Afghanistan
-- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Afghanistan
-- Biography.
ISBN:
9780062465764 (pbk.)
9780062378828 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Afghanistan
's
Romeo
and
Juliet
: the
true
story
of
how
they
defied
their
families
and
escaped
an
honor
killing
Description:
xviii, 362 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"A young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women'
s
rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but
they
grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of
Afghanistan
. By the time
they
were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying
their
families
, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law,
they
ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia'
s
large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family'
s
honor
.
They
are still in hiding. Women in
Afghanistan
are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled
their
plight, but has also shepherded them from danger. An astonishing
story
about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change"--Provided by publisher.
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