The Vanishing Girl of Kabul
betrayal, hope and an extraordinary fight for women’s rights
$32.45
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
Summary
This is the story of Zahra’s life in Afghanistan and her subsequent exile. As a child, she had to dress as a boy to gain an education; later, under US rule, she qualified as a lawyer and then a journalist. Then, shockingly, the years of freedom and education were overturned literally overnight when the US withdrew and Kabul fell to the Taliban. Afghanistan quickly became the key battleground in the global struggle for women’s equality, and as a journalist reporting on abuses of women, Zahra’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408783634 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408783630 |
| Author: | Zahra Joya, Amie Ferris-Rotman |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 22mm |
About The Author
Zahra Joya
Zahra Joya is a leading human rights journalist living in exile in London. She was airlifted out of Kabul in the chaotic days of the Taliban’s takeover of the country, in August 2021. A year earlier, Joya founded Rukhshana Media, Afghanistan’s first news agency dedicated to the stories of women - an online news source for Afghan woman. She is a former Time Magazine Woman of the Year and has won awards and accolades across the world including the Marie Colvin Award, the Gates Foundation Change Maker and CNN Champion for Change; she was named one of BBC’s 100 Women in 2022.
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