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Oppressed and Downtrodden: The New York Times Profiles Abused Afghan Women

Posted by faith on 25 Mar 2009 / 0 Comments

Covering Afghan women must be an especially hard task for many Western journalists. I say this because every piece I have read about Afghan women makes them seem like they are some of the most oppressed women in the world, with little to no hope for happiness, sans intervention by a Western savior or “Western” […]

Journalist Missing the Mission: Sally Armstrong and Afghan Women

Posted by sobia on 10 Mar 2009 / 0 Comments

The following has been cross posted at Muslim Lookout. For a while now Sally Armstrong has been documenting the situation of women in Afghanistan through her books and documentary. She recently spoke at the University of Guelph fundraising breakfast and Guelph, Ontario’s Guelph Mercury covered the talk given by Armstrong – a journalist, it seems, […]

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