Women of Afghanistan Panel

Women for Afghan Women, a non-profit collective of Afghan and non-Afghan women committed to ensuring the human rights of the women of Afghanistan, presents a panel discussion. A question and answer period follows the panelists' remarks.

Batya Swift Yasgur is the author of Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom, published by John Wiley and Sons. This is the memoir of two sisters, “Sulima” and “Hala,” who fled Afghanistan twenty years apart. “Sulima’s” narrative depicts growing up in a strict Muslim household. “Hala,” sixteen years younger than “Sulima,” describes growing up during the rise of the Mujihaddin and their efforts to rid Afghanistan of all western influences

Esther Hyneman is co-editor of the book Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future, published by Palgrave Macmillan. This is an anthology of essays that traces the history of women’s roles and rights in Afghanistan over the past 30 years, examines the cur close