"Instead
of being angry at their implications that I was a woman of low morals who
could not be trusted with freedoms, I decided that I would make it
one of my life’s goals … to show them that I was capable of more than
they had ever allowed me to envision for my future…little did I know … I was
embarking on a journey … so far removed from the fate any Pashtun woman is born
into.”
born
in Afghanistan; then a Pakistan refugee who moved to the US as a teenager;
one
of the only Pashtun female translators in the world; returned to Afghanistan
several
times to work as a cultural adviser with the U.S. Army.
