HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Mahfouz, Sola, 1996- author.
Subjects
Mahfouz, Sola, 1996-
Sex discrimination in education -- Afghanistan.
Girls -- Education -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Mahfouz, Sola, 1996- author.
by title:
Defiant dreams : the...
MARC Display
Defiant dreams : the journey of an Afghan girl who risked everything for education / Sola Mahfouz & Malaina Kapoor.
by
Mahfouz, Sola, 1996- author.
New York : Ballantine Books, [2023]
Subjects
Mahfouz, Sola, 1996-
Sex discrimination in education -- Afghanistan.
Girls -- Education -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780593359761 (hardcover) :
0593359763 (hardcover)
Description:
303 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women's rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear cruel, tent-like burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men, fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life. She decided that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even a basic ability to add or subtract, she began secretly to teach herself math and English. She progressed rapidly, and within just two years she was already studying topics such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it's also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom"--Provided by publisher.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
371.82209 Mahfouz Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
371.82209 Mahfouz Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
371.82209 Mahfouz Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kihei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
371.82209 Mahfouz Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Makawao Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
371.82209 Mahfouz Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.