S170. Report and Readings from the Afghan Women’s Writing Project
Saturday, March 1, 2014
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
AWWP provides a platform for Afghan women to write. From 10 writers in 2009 to more than 170 in 2013, over 750 poems and journalistic essays are published on awwproject.org. New projects include an oral history initiative with disabled and nonliterate women and a monthly radio series. From the act of writing as a basic right to the high-stakes 2014 election, from love poems to war diaries, chosen highlights will be read by audience members, editors, and an Afghan participant in the program.
Participants
Moderator:
Lori Noack
Marzia served as a social worker in Afghanistan, helping incarcerated women. In the U.S., she works as a translator for immigrant women.
