Meena, heroine of Afghanistan : the martyr who founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
/ Melody Ermachild Chavis ; foreword by Alice Walker
- First edition
- xii, 208 pages : map
Includes index.
Meena founded RAWA in 1977 as a 20 year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987. This is the story of her struggle for democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan as well as a portrait of a courageous mother, poet and leader who symbolizes an entire movement of women.