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03801aam a22005058i 4500 001 7B7BE982B1B511EDA9C6D5341FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230221010051 008 221202s2023 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022048205 020 $a 0593359763 020 $a 9780593359761 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a LC2410.A3 $b M35 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20221207 100 1 $a Mahfouz, Sola, $d 1996- $e author. 245 10 $a DEFIANT DREAMS : $b THE JOURNEY OF AN AFGHAN GIRL WHO RISKED EVERYTHING FOR EDUCATION / $c Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2306 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/06/06 520 $a "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 onlya 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 husbandsand 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Mahfouz, Sola, $d 1996- 650 0 $a Sex discrimination in education $z Afghanistan. 650 0 $a Girls $x Education $z Afghanistan. 650 0 $a Women $x Social conditions $z Afghanistan. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 700 1 $a Kapoor, Malaina, $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Mahfouz, Sola, 1996- $t Defiant dreams $b First edition. $d New York : Ballantine Books, 2023 $z 9780593359778 $w (DLC) 2022048206 941 $a 12 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509011659.0 952 $l GHPD771 $d 20240412010856.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409044500.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024642.0 952 $l ZYPE837 $d 20240403015750.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240403010332.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025456.0 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20240104010215.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230902011115.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230624010024.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230606011319.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230221010304.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B7BE982B1B511EDA9C6D5341FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search