Muslim Women In War And Crisis : Representation and Reality

The following text 'Muslim Women In War And Crisis' is written by Lina Abirafeh and edited by Faegheh Shirazi . In the following text writer talks about women's rights in Afghanistan . 

She starts her talk with describing the gender politics in Afghanistan . She explains in the 19th century there had been an attempt of emanipation of women in Afghanistan . She also describes the relation between modernization and conservative black lash .

She then focuses on the post war period where aid agencies tried to save the afghan women . They also designed aid programs which have been unable to integrate women . Because  Afghan women were potrayed as weak women who need help from something because they cannot do it themselves . 

Then the writer also talks about the interview she had with the afghan women in the rural area where all of them were the participants of the aid program . She began her research by analyzing the identity to challenge the assumptions the gender , as self identity was the most important for analizing Afghan women . She asked them certain questions to get a better understanding of how Afghans themselves value certain aspects of their identities . The main objective of this interview was to demonstrate that does the aid programming artificial divisions based on sex may not be valid for some participants . Then she also talks about the worlds view about the afghan women is like slaves of men and prisoners in home . The meaning of women in Afghanistan has come to be "being deprived of all kinds of rights " Afghan women are synonymous with guilt and shame . Women in Afghanistan must give positions to themselves and have to struggle for there own rights in the society . She says that women are not allowed to educate because men are afraid to loose their importance as the 'man , important person of the house ' . 

Most important is what she writes about awareness that women suffer because they are not able to see the world from their eyes instead they are forced to do the things always told by others that has made them to suffer them alot .