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Landays: Cries of the Pashtun Women
The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a lawless no-man's-land where violence and suffering rage, and no one has it harder than the region's 21 million Pashtun women. Their mode of rebellion? Short-verse poems called landays. By Eliza Griswold. (Apr. ’14)
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The Great Hypocritical Muslim Cover-Up
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Great article. I had never heard of this form of poetry before.