Sima Samar

Mar 19, 2024 | cbc.ca | Matthew Morris |Kate Black |Alexandra Posadzki |Sima Samar

Check out these Canadian biographies, essay collections, memoirs and other works coming out in spring 2024. Let It Go by Chelene KnightLet It Go is a nonfiction book by Chelene Knight.

Mar 7, 2024 | msmagazine.com | Sima Samar

The human rights abuses of the Taliban and re-establishment of gender apartheid in Afghanistan have largely been met with silence by the international community. A trend of normalization of the regime has begun to emerge in the media and in international assessments. Recently, The Washington Post ran an article titled “,” which described a Taliban enthralled with shopping, learning English and studying abroad.

Mar 2, 2024 | nypost.com | Sima Samar

Taliban members stop women in the street -- a sign of the reduced female empowerment following the departure of the US three years ago. AFP via Getty Images In 2002 I stood on a stage in the Zainab Cinema in Kabul to celebrate International Women’s Day as Afghanistan’s first minister of women’s affairs.

Feb 27, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Sima Samar |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.

Feb 26, 2024 | woroni.com.au | Alexis Landau |Sinead Gleeson |Sima Samar |Caelan Doel

The beginning of a new academic year calls for fresh distractions, and I come fully equipped to help you drain your wallets and your study time. Even better, you can tell yourself you’re wasting neither; reading is good for you, it makes you smart. You might as well be studying for your actual degree. Girl maths is calculating how many pretty hardcover novels you could buy with the money you saved by pirating your textbooks online (for legal purposes, this is a joke).