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Afghanistan: Women in Afghanistan

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 @ 08:42 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Afghanistan
Topics:: Gender
Languages:: English

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Sanjar offers a video documentary, in which both intimate and broadly political view of the past thirty years of Afghanistan's history through the lives of three women is presented.

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