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Are You Listening?

Are You Listening?

by | May 13, 2024

Are You Listening? is a journey of sound, sight and story. Using poems and stories, this memoir explores intergenerational displacement, and speaks the truths of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, and is forced to navigate a...
On the Edge of Being

On the Edge of Being

by | Sep 26, 2023

“I felt connected to the street girls, as if our silent smiles spoke a thousand words between us.” Sometimes painful and at other times shocking, On the Edge of Being is still hopeful. The daughter of a progressive Afghan governor, author Sharifa Sharif...