Fariba Nawa
Bio:
Fariba Nawa is journalist, speaker, and the author of Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey through Afghanistan. A native Afghan, Nawa spent three months investigating the disappearance of her paternal uncle in Afghanistan until she found out the tragic truth.
WMC Women Under Siege
October 11, 2013 | Fariba Nawa |
International
Afghanistan’s widows of the disappeared
Sabah Mohammed sat at the dining table where she worked in Fremont, Calif., her gaze distant and lost. She wondered if her husband was out there somewhere with another wife and family. Or maybe he was dead. Or maybe he was in a prison camp in Siberia.
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