Child Brides and Forced Marriages: An Evening with Fariba Nawa

Afghan Women in the Diaspora is joined by award-winning Afghan American author, journalist and speaker Fariba Nawa to discuss forced and child marriages in the Afghan community.

Fariba Nawa is the author of Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey through Afghanistan. She reports on various issues, including refugees, human rights and the global drug trade. Her work has been widely published, including in Women In The World/New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Daily Beast, Sunday Times Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle and Mother Jones. She’s also a contributing radio reporter with PRI’s The World. She's an expert on Afghanistan and has been interviewed by prominent news organizations from MTV, to NBC to FOX.

Copies of Opium Nation will be available to purchase at the event.

We are delighted that John Baily and Veronica Doubleday, experts in Afghan folk music will also be joining us to make it an evening to remember.

The discussion will be facilitated by mutli-award winning journalist Nadene Ghouri. Nadene and Fariba have worked together in Kabul many years ago and are now coming together to share the same stage in London.

Please note that 40% of the proceeds from the sale tickets will go towards charities supporting victims and survivors of the Kabul attack on the 31st of May 2017. The rest to support our upcoming community projects as we are voluntary organisation with no external support.