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_bZ75.
_cC53 2003
100 1 _aChavis, Melody Ermachild.
245 1 0 _aMeena, heroine of Afghanistan :
_bthe martyr who founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan /
_cMelody Ermachild Chavis ; foreword by Alice Walker.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bSt. Martin’s Griffin Press,
_cc2003.
300 _axii, 208 p. :
_bill., map ;
_c22 cm.
500 _a“A profoundly moving experience…a page-turner—Los Angeles Times”—cover page.
500 _aAbstract: "Meena founded RAWA in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987 at age thirty but lives on in the hearts of all progressive Muslim women. Her voice, speaking for freedom, has never been silenced. The compelling story of Meena's struggle for democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan will inspire young women the world over"—cover page.
600 1 0 _aMeena,
_d1957-1987.
650 0 _aRevolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
_x History.
650 0 _aWomen social reformers
_z Afghanistan
_v Biography.
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