Zarghuna kargar biography samples
Kargar's book, Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women in Afghanistan, explores some of the life-stories of women that she and her team compiled between and..
A powerful collection of testimonies that depict the struggles and hopes of Afghan women.
“[A]ll because I was an Afghan woman”: Reading the Life Story of Zarghuna Kargar in Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women in Afghanistan
By Dolikajyoti Sharma
During the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, Afghanistan has experienced a particular history of violent struggles for power and control by forces both within and without the nation.
In Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Thomas Barfield argues that violence and conflict after 1980 (after the Soviet occupation of the nation) reached
unprecedented heights because each rival faction had an international patron willing to provide it with a seemingly endless supply of weapons and money.
Afghanistan became a stage for a series of proxy wars in which Afghan blood would be shed in the name of ideologies that few Afghans shared. (Barfield 165)
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 led to ten years of conflict between the Soviets and the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) on one