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Zarghuna Kargar is an award-winning journalist for BBC World News, based in London. She produced and presented the BBC Afghan Woman`s hour and is the author of Dear Zari, The Secret Lives of Women in Afghanistan (2012), a book that reveals the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words....
Dec 10, 2022 · By Lyse Doucet and Zarghuna Kargar, BBC News. BBC. The pen name Paranda means 'bird' "My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we...
Dec 31, 2015 · The Killing of Farkhunda. Zarghuna Kargar tells the story of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, and religious scholar who was brutally murdered by a mob in the streets of Kabul in March. At...
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Dec 8, 2020 · Translated from Pashto by Zarghuna Kargar Tragedy strikes a newsroom in Kabul as a journalist scrambles for safety in Nargis’s short story set during the Soviet-Afghan War. December 8, 2020
Working closely with a team of editors and translators, including Afghan-born Zarghuna Kargar, the book comprises work from just some of Afghanistan’s most exciting contemporary voices, exploring issues that span family, tradition, gender identity, sexuality and more.
Afghani writer Zarghuna Kargar shares her experience with Girl Rising and what it was like getting to know Amina, the girl in the film's Afghanistan chapter....
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May 17, 2011 · Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan by Zarghuna Kargar. “‘I hope other people – particularly women – listen to these stories and become kinder to their own sex,'” a woman laments, her life made unbearable by her female in-laws who condemn her because she literally flushed away the evidence of her virginal blood.
