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Women's Human Rights Film Series: "Enemies of Happiness"
10/23/2007

The Advocates for Human Rights and

The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library present:

WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS FILM SERIES

Featuring Enemies of Happiness, a film by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem

Tuesday, October 23, 7 p.m.

St. Anthony Park Branch Library

2245 Como Avenue, Saint Paul

Free and open to the public

Among the candidates for the first parliamentary elections in Afghanistan in 35 years was Malalai Joya, a courageous, controversial 27-year-old woman who ignited outrage among hardliners when she spoke out against corrupt warlords at the Grand Council of tribal elders in 2003.  Enemies of Happiness is a revelatory portrait of this extraordinary freedom fighter and the way she won the hearts of voters, as well as a snapshot of life and politics in war-torn Afghanistan.