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Zarifa Audiobook Summary

A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.

I am one of the lucky ones.

I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not – they are now living under one of the world’s most repressive regimes, with any progress that was made for women over the past twenty years being brutally reversed.

Every day, I yearn for my motherland. Now it is my duty to make sure that the world knows what is happening to women there, and what we must do to
change things for them.


Zarifa Ghafari was three years old when the Taliban banned girls from schools, and she began her education in secret. She was seven when American airstrikes began. She was twenty-six when she became mayor – the only female mayor in the country – of Maidan Wardak, Kabul. An extremist mob barred her from her office; her male staff walked out in protest; assassins tried to kill her six times. Finally, they killed their father. Ghafari stood her ground. She ended corruption in the province, promoted peace and tried to lift up women, despite constant fear for herself and her family. When the Taliban took Kabul in 2021, Ghafari had to flee, narrowly escaping the country on one of the last flights out of Kabul and finding refuge in Germany.

Zarifa is an astonishing memoir that offers an unparalleled perspective of the last two decades in Afghanistan. Written with honesty, pain and ultimately, hope, Ghafari describes the work she did, the women she still tries to help as they live under Taliban rule and her vision for how grassroots activism can change their lives and the lives of women everywhere.

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Zarifa Audiobook Narrator

Ariana Delawari is the narrator of Zarifa audiobook that was written by Zarifa Ghafari

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Zarifa Full Details

Narrator Ariana Delawari
Length 8 hours 53 minutes
Author Zarifa Ghafari
Category
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date October 11, 2022
ISBN 9781668615355

Subjects

The publisher of the Zarifa is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Political Science, Women in Politics

Additional info

The publisher of the Zarifa is Hachette Audio. The imprint is PublicAffairs. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781668615355.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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