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...Maybe Halim has not counted on the number of girls who think like Mashal. At 18, she wants to be a doctor. "I want to be freed from Allah," she says. "I don't want to wear a veil at all. I want to wear miniskirts." And he may not be counting on the determination of women like Fakhria, 35, a mother of four in Kabul. After the Taliban forced her from her job at a teacher-training college, she opened a secret beauty salon in her house in Kabul. A high wall shields her customers from prying eyes. Inside...
...seem to fit in the show. It is also noteworthy, then, that he is the only character that the show’s authors conjured without relying on the source material. Their achievement with this creation leaves one to ponder how successful they might have been if, freed from Butterfly, they had pursued the character of the Engineer or worked to devise other new characters. Such reflections, though tantalizing, do nothing to alter or elevate the present work that is on exhibition at North Shore Music Theatre. And yet, in spite of all its numerous shortcomings, this production is worth...
Last Christmas, as a result of an inquiry into illegal arms trading to Angola, Jean-Christophe was jailed for three weeks. After being officially placed under investigation for influence peddling, he was freed from custody on a $700,000 bail - a sum paid by his mother, with whom he has lived since his release. In his book Mitterrand denies the charges, which were dismissed last summer on a technicality, claiming the $1.8 million that ended up in his Swiss bank account came from consulting, not illegal arms trading. And again he says that he is a victim - this time...
Today, when Osema, 32, walks through the bazaar, only her dark eyelashes are visible from underneath a burka, a billowy head-to-toe shroud with mesh over the eyes. Call it a reality check for those who think Afghan women would be freed from years of oppression if the U.S.-led military campaign brings down the Taliban regime. Osema?s ordeal shows that even in the Taliban-free northern swath of the country, women suffer severe discrimination...
...didn’t know where I was. I had no clothing, no money. I didn’t know the language. I had no shoes,” the 80-year-old Korean told the audience through an interpreter, recalling her time in China after being freed from the Japanese. “For the next several months, I lived like a beggar...