Masuda Sultan

Masuda Sultan (Kandahar 1978) is an Afghan American international human rights advocate .^[1] Sultan arrived in the United States at the age of five and was raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens .^[2] She attended local public schools and attained her master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.^[3]

She is the author of My War at Home, a memoir reflecting on her life as an Afghan American, in which she speaks of conflicts arising from her need for independence in the scheme of Afghan traditional culture, for example, her arranged marriage with an Afghan man. She is president and founder of Young Afghan-World Alliance.^[4] The organization was founded upon Masuda's return from a trip to Afghanistan, during which she had learned that 19 members of her family were killed in an October 2001 US air raid^[5] 60 miles north of Kandahar. Masuda was featured in and contributed to the making of the documentary From Ground Zero to Ground Zero in which she travels to Afghanistan with documentary maker Jon Alpert.^[6] It is during this trip she learns of the killings in the October air raid.

Works

Sultan, Masuda. My War at Home. Washington Square Press, 2006, ISBN 1-4165-2305-7

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