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imprisonment, torture, and possibly hanging. In order to protect themselves, the attendees had their children play outside the building and act as lookouts. They would alert the women of approaching religious police, at which point the students would hide their books and take up needlework. The program continued through the entirety of the
Taliban's rule during this period.
222:; the driver later told authorities that Anjuman was already dead when Neia placed her body in his carriage. Soon afterward, a senior police officer, Nisar Ahmad Paikar, stated that her husband had confessed to battering her following a row, but not to killing her; instead, Neia alleged that Anjuman took poison and confessed to doing so before she died.
182:, a graduate of Herat University with a degree in literature who became the head of the library there. Neia and his family believed that because she was a woman, Anjuman's writing was a disgrace to their reputation; despite this, Anjuman continued to write poetry. The couple had one son together shortly before Anjuman's murder when she was 25-years-old.
218:(the final day of the holy month of Ramadan). Neia said he would not allow her to visit her sister. Anjuman protested, and they began to fight. That night, Neia beat Anjuman until she was unconscious, severely bruised, and her head cut. Hours later, with Anjuman apparently still unconscious, Neia took her to a hospital by
322:. The book includes both Farsi and English versions of the poetry of eight female Afghan poets, including work by Anjuman. The introduction also tells the story of Anjuman's life and death in detail, based on interviews with the poet's family, friends, classmates, and professors and research on the ground in Herat.
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Anjuman was 21 when the
Taliban regime was ousted in 2001. Now free to pursue a formal education, she was accepted to Herat University to study literature and graduated in 2002. While earning her degree in literature, Anjuman published a book of poetry entitled “Gul-e-dodi” (“Flower of Smoke”) which
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Anjuman is said to have vomited blood after having lost consciousness, which doctors later believed was the most likely cause of death. Neia claimed that
Anjuman had taken poison after their row and had asked him to tell family and friends that she had died of a heart attack. Neia and his family
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Neia was convicted of having murdered
Anjuman, for which he then was incarcerated. Tribal elders in Herat began to press Anjuman's ailing father to forgive Neia for her death, in order to shorten Neia's prison sentence. With the promise that Neia would remain in prison for five years, Anjuman's
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Professor Rahyab became a mentor to
Anjuman in writing and literature. In a time when women were not permitted to leave their homes by themselves, Rahyab tutored the sixteen-year-old Anjuman and helped her to develop a distinctive writing voice. He also introduced her to many writers that would
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would gather three times a week under the guise of learning how to sew (a practice approved by the
Taliban government), while in actuality the meetings were lectures by Herat University professors with discussions on literature. The project was dangerous; if caught, the likely punishment was
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condemned the killing soon afterwards. Their spokesperson, Adrian
Edwards, said that "he death of Nadia Anjuman, as reported, is indeed tragic and a great loss to Afghanistan....It needs to be investigated and anyone found responsible needs to be dealt with in a proper court of law."
127:. With the new Taliban government in power, women had their liberties drastically restrained. A gifted student in her tenth year of schooling, Anjuman now faced a future with no hope for education, as the Taliban shut down girls' schools and forbade private instruction for girls.
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Some of Nadia Anjuman's poems, translated from the original Persian-Dari into Hindi by Rajesh Chandra and Anil Janvijay.
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Some of Nadia Anjuman's poems, translated from the original Persian-Dari into English by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar.
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Cristina Contilli, Ines Scarpolo, and M. Badihian Amir translated Anjuman's work into Italian in a volume entitled
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has been reprinted in Afghanistan three times and has sold over 3,000 copies.
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Anjuman was survived by her six-month-old son, who is now in Neia's custody.
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A Nation Challenged: Afghan Poets Revive a Literary Tradition
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Anjuman published her first volume of poetry in 2005, titled
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captured Herat and ousted the then-Governor of the Province,
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Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan
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Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan
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father relented, Anjuman's death was officially deemed a
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Afghan woman poet Nadia Anjuman remembered two years on
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147:greatly influence her work including
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376:Lamb, Christina (April 26, 2009).
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2917:21st-century Afghan women writers
894:Counsels of Adurbad-e Mahrspandan
111:Nadia Anjuman Herawi was born in
345:Synovitz, Ron (March 31, 2004).
2823:Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi
2254:Mohammad Hanif (Iranian writer)
2902:People murdered in Afghanistan
1894:Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad Tehrani
914:Karnamak-i Artaxshir-i Papakan
682:"Nadia Anjuman - Smoke Drifts"
303:, a Portuguese translation by
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2002:Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani
1242:Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami
2907:Persian-language women poets
700:"Flor de Fumo Nadia Anjuman"
378:"The defiant poets' society"
1705:Mohammad Qoli Salim Tehrani
702:. Exclamação - Bibliofolia.
140:Golden Needle Sewing School
132:Golden Needle Sewing School
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668:Exchanges Literary Journal
588:"diana arterian // poetry"
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1465:Zartosht Bahram e Pazhdo
1288:Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi
1184:Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani
844:Old Persian inscriptions
327:Elegia per Nadia Anjuman
2772:Houshang Moradi Kermani
2376:Houshang Moradi Kermani
2371:Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi
2356:Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
2267:Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei
1767:Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani
1741:Abbas Foroughi Bastami
204:“An Abundance of Worry”
2912:Persian-language poets
2224:Ghassem Hashemi Nezhad
1775:Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat
1396:Shams al-Din Qays Razi
1139:Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
606:"from Flower of Smoke"
576:on September 10, 2014.
180:Farid Ahmad Majid Neia
2897:Afghan murder victims
2760:Children's literature
2617:Rasoul Mollagholipour
2507:Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
2450:Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
2445:Alireza Koushk Jalali
2391:Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
2277:Shahriyar Mandanipour
1519:Shah Ni'matullah Wali
1363:Kamal al-Din Esfahani
1204:Ayn-al-Quzat Hamadani
975:Shikand-gumanig Vizar
958:Anthology of Zadspram
329:, published in 2006.
268:Poetry in translation
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2522:Pouran Derakhshandeh
2502:Mohammad Reza Aslani
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2199:Ali Mohammad Afghani
1869:Mohammad Reza Aslani
1798:Mahmud Saba Kashani
1534:Fazlallah Astarabadi
1410:Afdal al-Din Kashani
1405:Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī
1355:Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
1237:Afdal al-Din Kashani
1051:Abu Tahir Khosrovani
839:Behistun Inscription
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2239:Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
2091:Abdul Ali Mustaghni
2076:Khalilullah Khalili
2016:Manouchehr Sheybani
1992:Tahereh Saffarzadeh
1899:Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
1856:Mehdi Akhavan-Sales
1498:Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani
1343:Faramarz-e Khodadad
929:Shabuhragan of Mani
492:– via Google.
2932:Afghan women poets
2726:Ebrahim Pourdavoud
2711:Ahmad Kamyabi Mask
2681:Najaf Daryabandari
2542:Behrouz Gharibpour
2386:Shahrnush Parsipur
2361:Aboutorab Khosravi
2263:Aboutorab Khosravi
2127:Gulrukhsor Safieva
2045:Edward Haghverdian
1709:Rasa Salim Tehrani
1428:Abu'l Majd Tabrizi
1415:Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
1071:Abusaeid Abolkheir
1010:Muhammad ibn Wasif
965:Zand-i Wahman yasn
924:Dana-i Menog Khrat
909:Book of Arda Viraf
815:Persian literature
768:UniVerse of Poetry
745:The New York Times
735:Additional sources
660:"Three poems from
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424:The New York Times
258:Yek Sabad Delhoreh
196:"Flower of Smoke."
163:proved popular in
157:Forough Farrokhzad
69:Herat, Afghanistan
52:Herat, Afghanistan
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2602:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
2587:Samuel Khachikian
2572:Ebrahim Hatamikia
2483:Mohammad Yaghoubi
2479:Mirza Aqa Tabrizi
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2259:Houshang Golshiri
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2532:Bahman Farmanara
2465:Abbas Nalbandian
2341:Ebrahim Golestan
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2142:Mirzo Tursunzoda
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