Women for Women International [to 30 January 2016]
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January 22, 2016 | The Diane Rehm Show
Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet and How They Escaped an Honor Killing
WfWI’s Noorjahan Akbar joins Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Gayle Tzemach Lemmon and New York Times reporter and author Rod Nordland to discuss his new book The Lovers: Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet. Drawing from her personal experience, Akbar shares how women in Afghanistan are working to counter patriarchal norms and claim their own agency and power to make the choices that affect their lives.