The lives of Afghan women
Canadians, whether they favor or oppose the inclusion of this country in Afghanistan, and the huge cost in lives and dollars, that they have the impression of some vast tracts of land, where there is no law, where untamed bad either base or roam freely, and copies of all corruption.
This will be sweeping the memoir written by Fawzia Kufi, the female politician in Afghanistan, the most popular, and not to change this impression, but it will add some meat to the bones of the human drawn by a vague image for the most part of government propaganda. In all
countries torn by conflict the majority of people just want to get a life, and care for their families and to leave it alone. Basic desires such as have long been denied the people of Afghanistan.
The story of Coffee and explains what lies under the chaos of this multi-factions and the nation, multi-complex languages and signed in the current conflict between foreign countries - primarily the trio familiar in the United States, Britain and Canada - and fanatics are vicious religious known as the Taliban, supported, we are told, by foreign militants and bags of drug money.
Set against a group of disorders, which began with the Soviet invasion and continues today with the continuation of the war against the Taliban and a variety of messages to my daughter's life story is the Kufi and thus a piece of Afghan history of modern social and political.
Criticized the leadership of the Taliban out of power by the United States last - the 911, began as a political movement among the students of religious schools during the Soviet occupation for '89 -1979. Coffee and records, and the extremist Taliban movement that hordes of foreign Muslims who fought on their side against the Soviets and eventually formed a government that cruelty against its citizens seem to know no limits.
As Coffee demonstrates enough, and the treatment Taliban psychopathic women that most disgusted the international community: He was forced to wear the burqa in public places, and a ban on all female education after the age of eight and the decree can not be female patients to be treated by the doctors said - between the tenacity many others.
Coffee is 19 children, 23 and her father. Her mother is the second of the seven wives of her father and was pregnant with her when - in the words and coffee - and said she "lost the love of my father for his wife's newest and smallest."
That was a year 14 girl.
The first line of the first chapter as follows: "Until the day I was born, was supposed to die."
After that, she reveals, he left her and her mother from depression in the hot sun to die.
"When she became pregnant with me, she was physically exhausted from the seven children she already gave birth ..."
That was in 1975 and since then, and refused to Coffee with death many times, especially in its dealings with the Taliban.
Before becoming a member of the Afghan parliament, and then the first female Vice-President of the Parliament in 2005, she worked with UNICEF and other NGOs on issues of women and children.
In letters to the daughters of the book is more of a key element of the literary memoir. Her "messages" advice on all kinds of topics from romance to separate politics and while each chapter must be of the narrative, it is inevitably poignant.
Some sections of the most dramatic and revealed in letters to my daughter's involvement Taliban search for her brother, who was in hiding, and subsequent arrest of her husband.
It was a week after her marriage, and minutes after her post-ceremony wedding traditional Takht Jamie when he arrived at thugs of the Taliban in the door.
"Stormed the rebels to bliss my recently married like rams a torment. Without being asked, they walked into my living room where I was sitting under the wreaths in my makeup all silly and finery. Barking at us to stay where we were, then I went to my bedroom. and began tearing sheets of the bed ... It was such an invasion of privacy and decency, and an insult to our culture. but these brutes do not care about that. "
After the destruction of the house, and leave fools Taliban house empty-handed only to meet her husband coming home at the bottom of the stairs apartment house.
"Angry at their failure to find my brother, arrested Hamid. He said he did not do anything. He said he did not commit any crime, but they took it. I ran down the stairs screaming. 'We've been married only seven days, and said he did not know anything. This is my husband, we are newlyweds, and we are innocent. leave us alone. "
Through a friend of a friend contacted a member of senior Taliban, who promised to help. Shortly thereafter, I got beaten Hamed home.
A beautiful section of the craft, which describe the journey to the house offical Taliban.
"I saw a woman depressed appearance with shoulders hunched in a burka blue. For the second time, I did not recognize her. Then I realized I was looking at myself. And was caught meditation under the grime of the shop photography is empty. And I had gently stripped of the identity of a lot I did not even know myself. "
(And the photography shop is empty because the Taliban banned photography along with almost everything else that gave ordinary people the fun and relief).
"Faded pictures lined the walls, young men posing as actors in Bollywood to the backgrounds of waterfalls and infant holding balloons high and smiling a toothless on fathers and mothers who may be just standing behind the camera in an attempt to make them laugh, young girls in Lacey, dresses and socks ankle smiling shame... began to wonder what happened to pictures of all those smiling faces. "
Letters to my daughter, and participated in his books the BBC's Nadene Ghouri, is packed with drama (and humor) that helps to bring alive the reality of Afghanistan.
Hope remains that Kufi, despite being mired in drugs, corruption and the threat of the Taliban return to power, Afghanistan has the potential to become successful, the Islamic Republic of economically viable.
"This is what I live for," she wrote:
On the basis of what you write, and a few in Canada and we know that society is complex, and optimism seems to have more of a dream into reality is likely.
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