In My Father's Country
An auto-biography of Saima Wahab, a Pashtun woman born in Kabul, Afghanistan, who fled as a refugee to Pakistan and later Portland, Oregon, and her struggles against the traditional gender roles of her native culture.
920
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: wahab, saima, women translators, afghan american women [X], postwar reconstruction, afghanistan [X]
Torn Between Two Cultures
The author, born in the U.S. in 1974 to Afghan immigrants, describes her upbringing, her family's past, and her dual identity, and discusses relations between the U.
305.48
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: 305.48
lexile:
subjects: aseel, maryam qudrat, afghan american women [X], afghan americans, muslims, east and west, united states, afghanistan [X]
Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse
Suraya Sadeed chronicles her efforts to bring hope and relief to the refugees, women, and orphans of Afghanistan, describing how she has risked her own life to help the war-torn country and create the organization Help the Afghan Children.
920
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: sadeed, suraya, women social reformers, social reformers, afghan american women [X], children, afghan war, 2001-, afghanistan [X]
A Door In The Earth
Inspired by a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane, Parveen Shams travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to help with his charitable foundation.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: afghan american women [X], afghan war, 2001-, humanitarian assistance, americans, truthfulness and falsehood, identity (philosophical concept), rural health clinics, afghanistan [X], domestic fiction