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EmpowerHer’s HerVoice Initiative

Humanitas Media is proud to partner with EmpowerHer’s HerVoice Initiative, which gives young Afghan women a platform to share their stories with the world. This collection features contest winners and selected student writing published through our collaboration.

Familiar Stranger

With dark, shadowed eyes and excitement, she sat down in front of her mother. “Mom… when did you feel strong? I mean, when did you truly realize you were at your strongest?”

The girl who has never given up on her dreams

I have never thought that a day would arrive when education would be a dream for each of the Afghan girls. When I was accepted to Kabul University, I was feeling that one of my biggest ambitions was already fulfilled. I was going to university with great enthusiasm and interest.

Down the Road of Kabul

You are gonna be okay, it’s just the Taliban
Oh just the Taliban…
How simple words to bring on your mouth
Years of nonstop war
Just the Taliban?
A home with no breadwinner
Children screaming out of hunger
Still not a big deal?

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Allen Peacock

Allen Peacock worked for a quarter century as one of the leading editors in American book publishing. Books he acquired and published won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, among others. He worked with writers as diverse and renowned as Salman Rushdie, Robert Coover, Robert Olen Butler, Ann Beattie and MacArthur Award winners Joanna Scott and William Gaddis. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English & American Literature.