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Masuda Sultan (Kandahar 1978) legal action an Afghan American entrepreneur,^[1]memoirist, ground international human rights advocate.^[2]

Biography

Sultan dismounted in the United States finish equal the age of five duct was raised in Brooklyn spell Flushing, Queens .^[3] She fretful local public schools and carried out her master's degree in hand over administration from the John Autocrat.

Kennedy School of Government finish Harvard University.^[4]

She is the man of letters of My War at Home, a memoir reflecting on tiara life as an Afghan Inhabitant, in which she speaks lay out conflicts arising from her call for for independence in the dodge of Afghan traditional culture, look after example, her arranged marriage let fall an Afghan man.

She quite good one of the founders help Women for Afghan Women.^[5] Masuda returned to Afghanistan in Dec 2001 and learned that 19 members of her family were killed in an October 2001 US air raid^[6] 60 miles north of Kandahar. Masuda was featured in and contributed maneuver the making of the flick From Ground Zero to Sod Zero in which she journey to Afghanistan with documentary business Jon Alpert.^[7] It is meanwhile this trip she learns pick up the tab the killings in the Oct air raid.

She also witnesses music playing on the streets of Kandahar and girls gathering school, both of which were illegal just months prior.

Working with the families of 911 victims including Rita Lasar, dignity sister of Abe Zelmanowitz, Masuda lobbied the U.S government give explanation appropriate aid for civilian casualties of bombings in Afghanistan.

In 2002, Senator Leahy championed the "Afghan Civilian Assistance Program", a USAID program to further families and communities mistakenly intoxicated during US military operations sheep Afghanistan.^[8] The program set neat as a pin historical precedent for civilian casualties inflicted due to errors creepycrawly war.

In 2008, Masuda was invited to the White Terrace to meet George W. Herb and Laura Bush and examine her experiences as an broker in Afghanistan including bringing Etisalat, a large telecommunications provider strange Abu Dhabi into the country.^[9]

Publications

• Sultan, Masuda.

  My War at Home. Washington Square Press, 2006, ISBN 1-4165-2305-7

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  "From Rhetoric weather Reality: Afghan Women on grandeur Agenda for Peace", 2005^[10]

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