The European Parliament seeks to maintain the Afghan women’s situation high on the EU and international agenda, and this event had at its heart the anthology of short stories by contemporary Afghan women writers – My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, New Fiction by Afghan Women (MacLehose Press, 2022).
Speakers included Samira Rafaela MEP, a Member of the European Parliament on behalf of D66 since 2019; Lucy Hannah, director of Untold Narratives; Zarghuna Kargar, one of the translators of My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird; Nicola Dahrendorf, Chair, a human rights and humanitarian practitioner, focused on protection, peacebuilding and conflict resolution in conflict and post-war contexts.
