TITLE

Sleeping Lions

AUTHOR(S)

Chambers, Emily

PUB. DATE

March 1999

SOURCE

New Moon;Mar/Apr99, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p36

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Features the story of an Afghanistan girl named Meena. Why girls were not allowed to go to school in Afghanistan; Goal of the Revolutionary Afghanistan Women's Association started by Meena.

ACCESSION #

2131952

Tags: REVOLUTIONARY Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Organization);  GIRLS

 

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