Omni San Francisco Hotel
500 California St
415.487.6447
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Malalai Joya, Courtesy the International Museum of Women
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Wednesday July 16, 2008 (6pm)
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$15 - 25
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Malalai Joya recently turned 30, but she shows no sign of tamping down her quest for a free and fair Afghanistan. Joya first made waves in 2003, when she issued an unsparing critique of the mujahideen-dominated constitutional assembly at a convention — a courageous thing for any elected delegate to do, let alone a young woman in Afghanistan. In 2007, she was suspended from parliament for "insulting" fellow representatives, a thinly veiled ploy that has not sat well with Joya's international supporters. She speaks at the Omni Hotel as part of the International Museum of Women's Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change lecture series.
