Film, Video Afghan Women's Poems Inspire

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Title
Afghan Women's Poems Inspire
Summary
Mahnaz Rezaie represented the Afghan Women's Writing Project (AWWP) during a conversation where poetry and visual art was shared. Part of the Persian Book Lecture Series, presented in collaboration with the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland.
Event Date
March 31, 2016
Notes
-  Mahnaz Rezaie was born in western Afghanistan to a Shia family that placed a high value on education. When she was eight years old, the Taliban came to power, forcing her Shia family to flee the Sunni Taliban threat. Returning to Afghanistan years later, Rezaie won a scholarship to continue her education in the United States in 2009. She is a writer for the Afghan Women Writers Project and now mentors the online Dari workshop for women in Afghanistan who do not speak/write English. She is also a filmmaker who was honored at the recent Women in the World Summit in NYC for her short film that explores how wearing a hijab affected her relationships when she first came to the U.S. Currently, Rezaie is in the Master's program at the Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and is at work on a novel.
Related Resources
African & Middle Eastern Division: https://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/
Running Time
53 minutes 16 seconds
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