Women for Afghan women: shattering myths and claiming the future

Foreword : Afghanistan : truth and mythology / Sima Wali

Introduction : building community across difference / Sunita Mehta and Homaira Mamoor. The lessons of history. Women have no name in that land / Fevziye Rahzogar Barlas

Afghan women : an allegory / Freshta Amirzada

Looking back, looking forward / Eleanor Smeal

Women and equality in Islam / Sanaa Nadim

The Zan of Afghanistan : a 35-year perspective on women in Afghanistan / Arline Lederman

Excerpts from The apostle's diary / Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

The kaleidoscope of memory / Gloria Steinem

The mission of RAWA : freedom, democracy, human rights / Weeda Mansoor

The loya jirga (grand assembly) tradition in Afghanistan : will the formation of a loya jirga empower women and solve the crisis in Afghanistan? / Sara Amiryar

A vision of justice, equality, and peace / Fahima Vorgetts

Miss Afghanistan : a story of a nation / Zohra Yusuf Daoud with contributions from Murwarid Abdiani

Photo essay : history, faces, transplanted lives / Lina Pallotta.

Stories and strategies for claiming the future. In mourning of my city ; Faryad (scream) / Atia Gaheez

On making political change / Ruth Messinger

Muslim women's rights : a contemporary debate / Riffat Hassan

United Nations and Afghanistan / Angela E.V. King

Women are opening doors : Security Council resolution 1325 in Afghanistan / Felicity Hill and Mikele Aboitiz

I hope this letter will reach you / Irena Lieberman

Public health : a reconstruction policy in Afghanistan / Zohra Rasekh

Two identities, one mission / Fariba Nawa

Hope in Afghanistan / Masuda Sultan

Epilogue : from pawns to principals : the future of Afghan women / Rina Amiri.