Human Flower Project
“Dark Red Flower”—Nadia Anjuman
A popular poet has died in Afghanistan, and her husband has been arrested.
Nadia Anjuman
(1980-2005)
Nadia Anjuman, age 25, died Sunday in Herat, Afghanistan. It appears she was beaten to death. Her husband, who confessed to striking her on Friday, has been apprehended, as has her mother.
Anjuman, we learn, published her first book of poems this year, a collection entitled “Gul-e-dodi, which means dark red flower.” Her work was especially popular among women in Afghanistan and Iran. This site may include one of her poems, but we haven’t been able to locate a Farsi/English translator. Can anyone help?
A piece in the Middle East Times reports, “Under the fundamentalist Taliban regime of 1996-2001 women were denied the right to education and could not even leave their homes without a male member of the family.
“Women have been given more freedom since the Taliban were toppled in a US-led campaign in late 2001. But rights groups say that (women) are still mistreated by men, including through sexual and domestic violence.”
United Nations spokesman Adrian Edwards called Anjuman’s death, “tragic and a great loss to Afghanistan.” He added that “violence against women remains dramatic in Afghanistan—in its intensity and its pervasiveness.”
(This site, in tribute to Anjuman, includes poems by contemporary Afghani women writers.)
Anjuman leaves behind her Dark Red Flower and a six-month-old daughter.
Comments
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I am an American poet. My country is currently at war with Nadia’s and yet reading of her death and more importantly her life has touched me greatly.
Nadia you will not be forgotten.
Why isn’t her book being translated and published all over the world already is what I want to know?!!!
I want to buy it! Maybe the money could be used to help these women!