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Will Fawzia Koofi Be Afghanistan's First Female President?

Breaking Barriers

If anyone can make it happen, Fawzia Koofi can. Left out to die in the sun as a baby girl, she became the first female deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament. The author of the new memoir The Favored Daughter tells her searing story.

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