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Life Arts    H4'ed 10/31/13

American Filmmaker Shares Precarious Story of Afghani Girls' School

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 American filmmaker Beth Murphy returns to Kabul Province, Afghanistan, where a girls' school grapples with the pending drawdown of US troops. "I have gotten to know the students, teachers and administrators here, and returning now at such a tense time is a powerful experience. I find myself full of hope for the girls as the first generation of educated Afghan women in their community; delighted when I see how beautiful and bright they are; and afraid, sometimes even terrified, for their futures."
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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