Stop Child Brides
Description: Fariba Nawa, an award-winning Afghan-American journalist, covers a range of issues and specializes in immigrant and Muslim communities in the United States and abroad. She is a correspondent based in the San Francisco Bay Area but frequently travels to the Middle East and South Asia. She lived and reported from Afghanistan from 2002 to 2007, witness to the US-led war against the Taliban and al Qaeda. She has also reported from Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt and Germany. She has a master’s in Middle Eastern stu
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A highway that begins crumbling before it is finished. A school with a collapsed roof. A clinic with faulty plumbing. A farmers’ cooperative that farmers can’t use. Afghan police and military that, after training, are incapable of providing the most basic security.
Fariba's talk in TEDx Monterey California.
Nawa’s memoir and investigative work Opium Nation is a recommended book on Afghanistan and the largest opiates trade in the world. She’s working on her second book.
Stop Child Brides