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Two teenage Muslim girls holding books and wearing backpacks

The librarian who defied the Taliban

Source: BBC

Meet Wahida Amiri, a librarian and book-lover forced to flee her homeland after she spoke out against the Taliban and demanded equal rights for Afghan women.

This entry was posted in Hard-Won Liberty, The Struggle for Freedom, Voices of Protest and tagged Current Events on September 7, 2022 by Chandler Gifford.

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