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Last to Eat, Last to Learn
Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women | Pashtana Durrani, Tamara Bralo
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A Ms. Magazine Pick for Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023 Pashtanas story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope readers will be inspired by her mission to give every girl the education she deserves and the opportunity to pursue her dreams. Malala Yousafzai In the spirit of I am Malala and Our House is On Fire by Greta Thunberg, this is the astonishing true story of the Malala Fund Education Champion Award-winner, founder of the NGO LEARN, and womens education activist whose advocacy for the disappearing girls of rural Afghanistan has led to her being ruthlessly targeted by the Taliban. Inspired by generations of her familys unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistans girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, where girls are often married off before reaching their teenage years and prohibited from leaving their homes, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana was raised in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan where her father, a tribal leader, founded a community school for girls within their home. Fueled by his insistence that despite being a girl, she mattered and deserved an education, Pashtana was sixteen when, against impossible odds, she was granted a path out of the refugee camp: admittance to a preparatory program at Oxford. Unthinkably and to her parents horror, she chose a different path. She chose Afghanistan. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the hands of girls in remote areas of the country, training teachers in digital literacy. Her commitment to education has made her a target of the Taliban. Still, she continues to fight for womens education and autonomy in Afghanistan and beyond. Courageous and inspiring, Last to Eat, Last to Learn is the story of how just one person can transform a family, a tribe, a country. It reminds us of the emancipatory power of learning and the transformational potential that lies within each of us.
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#bookmail I won this as a goodreads giveaway. Thank you Kensington Press, Citadel Press, @penguinrandomhouse @PenguinRandomCa

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Today, I‘m sharing a physical ARC I won from a Goodreads giveaway. This is a Between The Chapters book club pick. This book sounds interesting to me. I‘m looking forward to reading it.

On Sale: May 23, 2023 (The paper that came with this book says coming in March 2024. Google says May 23, 2023. This ARC says May 23, 2023 on it and Kensington Publishing‘s website says that this book goes on sale 1/2/2079 so I‘m confused about the release date.)