QADERI, Homeira

2015 Resident

Asia
Southern Asia
Afghanistan

Dari

Homeira QADERI (fiction writer; Afghanistan) is the author of six books, including the novel [Silver Kabul River Girl], published in Iran in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim. An activist for women’s rights and currently a Senior Advisor to the Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled, she teaches at the University of Kabul. She participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

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On the 2022 shortlist for the distinguished Prix Apollinaire for French and Francophone poetry: Habib TENGOUR’s La Sandale d’Empédocle.
Homeira QADERI will be among the 2022 recipients of the MESA Global Academy scholarship.

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