Fariba Nawa | The New York Review of Books

Fariba Nawa

Fariba Nawa is an Afghan-American journalist. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Sunday Times of London, Foreign Affairs, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. She also reports for radio, including National Public Radio (NPR), and is the author of Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan (2011). (February 2019)

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Divorce Turkish Style

As the country urbanizes, it is struggling to manage its relationship to modernity within the traditional institution of marriage. Turkey’s AKP government is threatened by liberal ideas, but change is coming—has come already.

February 20, 2019