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Geneva

An Afghan guide of stature
  • An exile views her chosen city
Globe that Woodrow Wilson gave the League of Nations

Leila Enayat-Seraj's photo won a prize and is now a postcard.

 

 

  • A force for peace

 

 

Leila reading poems by Afghan women, which she has translated.


"Meetings in the context of culture with Afghan women of all social and ethnic backgrounds has convinced me that the arts transcend fratricide and that women are an immense force for peace."  

 

 

 

  • Poet, writer and stateswoman in exile...

 

Leila Enayat-Seragj was offered the post of Deputy Minister of Culture in the current Afghan government. She can explain why she refused it.

 

 

 

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Parisian photos / Claude Abron

 

 

Her father's memoires are her latest published work. Sayed Qassem Ristya wrote and tried to have adopted (in the 1960's) the Afghan Constitution that exists today.