As America prepares to draw down its forces in Afghanistan, this story of survival and hope from a voice of the country\'s most oppressed group could not be more timely.
Along the way, she f.
But despite a childhood of abuse and deprivation in a notoriously sexist society, she rose above her fate to become the first female Speaker of Parliament.
Born to the second of her father\'s seven wives in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi\'s mother who had hoped for a son left her to die in the sun after birth.
As America prepares to draw down its forces in Afghanistan, this story of survival and hope from a voice of the country\'s most oppressed group could not be more timely