Arizona Mule Train Project Resource Links- Aid to Afghan Women Poets and Families in Danger

Last Updated on 2 years by IMYM Tech Lead

The links to resources below are offered to Friends in response to the interest group presentation on the Arizona Mule Train Project's work to help Afghan Women and Families still in Afghanistan conducted at the Colorado Regional Friends 2021 Fall Gathering.  

Fundraising: Friends may donate to support the work of the Arizon Mule Train Project through the Colorado Springs Friends Meeting online at: https://giv.li/rw9x5i

Materials from the Colorado Regional Friends 2021 Fall Gathering:
Arizona Mule Train Interest Group Presentation Slides: HERE
How Quakers Can Help Afghan Families:HERE

Afghan poetry, Frazana'stroke, etc:
NPR- Short 7-min - https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/629362007/drop-by-drop-how-poetry-helped-the-u-s-military-in-afghanistan
NPR, "War Poems Revisited" - Long 47-min https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993647572/war-poems-revisited

Farzana (English) and Somaia (Dari) reading poetry, Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7EIO91LNc
https://www.azfamily.com/shows/good_morning_arizona/veteran-and-linguist-loses-her-words-living-with-aphasia/article_e3182a2f-58a7-522d-9984-b8b48be0eecc.html
https://sbs.arizona.edu/news/creating-cultural-understanding-one-word-time

Farzana’s books: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MerakiMotion?ref=search_shop_redirect&section_id=27653781

2013/nonfiction: Hearts for Sale!: A Buyer's Guide to Winning in Afghanistan https://www.amazon.com/Hearts-Sale-Buyers-Winning-Afghanistan/dp/0985291710/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?

2014/poetry: Letters to War and Lethe https://www.amazon.com/Letters-War-Lethe-Farzana-Marie/dp/1622297245/ref=sr_1_1?  

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/letters-to-war-and-lethe-by-farzana-marie/

2015/translation: Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan https://www.amazon.com/Load-Poems-Like-Guns-Afghanistan/dp/0985981881/ref=sr_1_1?

Farzana’s translation/poetry:
https://www.guernicamag.com/author/farzana-marie/
http://cordite.org.au/translations/marie-anjuman/
https://iwp.uiowa.edu/silkroutes/city/kabul/text/kingwhisper
https://atticusreview.org/something-has-left-my-body/
http://www.hoppermag.org/ghazal-quilt
https://militaryexperience.org/a-meeting-in-amman/
https://militaryexperience.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/lethe.pdf
http://www.whenwomenwaken.org/memento-mori-by-farzana-marie/
http://www.whenwomenwaken.org/amaryllis-by-farzana-marie/
http://www.zocalomagazine.com/december-poetry/
http://www.flycatcherjournal.org/005-marie-melon-camping.php
https://militaryexperience.org/as-you-were-vol-1/
https://www.theoperatingsystem.org/napomo-303030-day-4-farzana-marie-on-poetry-in-social-conflict/