Film Night: "View from a Grain of Sand" about Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
This film provides a human portrayal of a history of Afghanistan through the lives of three unique and powerful women. It takes place in a refugee camp
in Kabul, Pakistan where the women have fled with their families. Beginning in the 1980's with the story of Wajeeha, whose husband was killed in battle, and
who was saved by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). She makes it her life purpose to fight for women's rights and teach other
women to read and write as she had been taught by RAWA.
Next is Roeena, a doctor, who, along with her family, flees the violence of Afghanistan in the early 1990's. After witnessing the brutality inflicted on other women she swears off marriage to put all her energy towards treating them.
Shapiray is a teacher at a girls' school in the late 1990's. She and her husband invert tradition by having an equal marrriage in which she must take up the role of the breadwinner when her husband is unable to find work. Come on out to the Beverly Public Library to watch this movie with us!
rawa.org
afghanwomensmission.org
http://www.viewgrainofsand.com/
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