Christina Lamb
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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
"When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Across the world women are victimized by wartime atrocities that are rarely recorded, much less punished. The first ever prosecution for war rape was in 1997 and there have been remarkably few convictions since, as if rape doesn't matter in the reckoningof war, only killing. Some courageous women in countries around the world are taking things in their own hands, hunting down the war criminals themselves"--
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? Twenty seven years ago, Christina Lamb left Britain to become a journalist in Pakistan. She crossed the Hindu Kush into Afghanistan with mujaheddin fighting the Russians and fell unequivocally in love with this fierce country...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
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Traces the inspiring story of Syrian refugee Nujeen Mustafa, who after being born with cerebral palsy and denied an education because of her disability made a harrowing journey by wheelchair from her war-ravaged home to safety in Germany.
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2013
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Español
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Cuando los talibanes tomaron el control del valle de Swat, una niña luchó por su derecho a la educación. El martes 9 de octubre de 2012 estuvo a punto de pagar el gesto con su vida cuando le dispararon en la cabeza a quemarropa. El extraordinario periplo de Malala Yousafzai la ha llevado desde un valle remoto en el norte de Pakistán hasta las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York. Se ha convertido en un símbolo global de protesta pacífica y es la persona...
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest humanitarian issue of our time, the Syrian refugee crisis.
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