The Indian Express

5 must-read books by Afghan women writers

October 13, 2025

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird (MacLehose Press, 2022) and My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) were featured as two of the ‘5 must-read books by Afghan women writers’ by The Indian Express on 3 October 2025.

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