Books by Awista Ayub
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review 1: I loved the concept of this book: teaching 8 Afghan girls how to play soccer in an American soccer clinic, so they could go home to Kabul and spread the sport to other Afghan girls who had been forbidden from playing sports by the Taliban. However, it lost a lot by the way it wa...
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review 1: A story of young Afgan girls and their desire to play soccer in a culture and time in which women sports are not supported in their home country. These eight girls did come to the US for training and then return home in 2005. The book jumps between the US visit and the girls live...
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review 1: This book opened my eyes to how much was in stake for the young women of Aghanistan not just one government but several and all changing the course of the other. But through out it all the desire to follow one's course pervailed. It had failure, success and growth.Things many o...