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Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mothers Letter to her Son

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By (author): Homeira Qaderi

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mothers unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity? Your family?

In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant womans bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. But the joy of her beautiful sons birth was soon overshadowed by other dangers that would threaten her life.

No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, at the age of thirteen, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for womens rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society.

Devastating in its power, Dancing in the Mosque is a mothers searing letter to the son she was forced to leave behind. In telling her story and that of Afghan women Homeira challenges us to reconsider the meaning of motherhood, sacrifice, and survival.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 160g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008375317

About Homeira Qaderi

Homeira QADERI is the author of six books including the novel Noqrah a Girl from Kabul River published in Iran in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim. An activist for womens rights who served as a Senior Advisor to the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Qaderi is currently Senior Advisor to the Minister of Education. She teaches at several universities in Kabul. She participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

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