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Afghan politician

Shukria Barakzai (Pashto: شکريه بارکزۍ) is an Afghan politician, journalist and Muslim feminist. She was the ambassador of Afghanistan to Norway.^[1] She is a recipient of the International Editor of the Year Award.

Early life

Barakzai was born in 1970 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Barakzai went to Kabul University in the 1990s. Halfway through a degree, she had to break off her studies because of mounting violence between the government and the Mujahideen.

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In September 1996 the Taliban captured Kabul. By then, many citizens, especially the educated middle classes, had left for a life in exile.

Campaigning journalism

Following the fall of the Taliban regime, Barakzai capitalized on the opportunity and in 2002 Barakzai founded Aina-E-Zan (Women's Mirror), a national weekly newspaper.

She campaigns on issues such as maternal andinfant mortality, areas in which Afghanistan has great difficulty.^[2] (The Wor