Rising After the Fall: Afghan Women Share Their Stories

 


Compelling stories from female Afghan voices.

Using extracts from diaries kept in real time
during and following the fall of Kabul in 2021,
this book gives children personal and compelling snapshots
from a woman’s perspective.

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This powerful book will provide children with a better
understanding of life in Afghanistan as Kabul fell to the Taliban.

Using extracts from their collective diary on WhatsApp,
kept during and following the fall of Kabul
in 2021, this book gives children personal and compelling
snapshots from a woman’s perspective.


Each chapter will help to provide children with a better
understanding of life as Kabul fell to the Taliban.



“These are women on the cultural front line. Their
diary is an archive of yet another milestone in the volatile history
of Afghanistan.” Financial Times






Fully illustrated in colour by Afghan artist Sara Rahmani


Rising After the Fall is produced in collaboration
with UNTOLD Narratives – a development
programme for writers marginalized by community or conflict


Packed with detail on different aspects of life in Afghanistan
both before and after the most recent takeover
by the Taliban in August 2021