Afghan Women Speak Out Against Protests over U.S. Quran Burning
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that while Afghan women deplore the burning of the Quran by U.S. troops, they are even angrier at the bloody...
Speaker: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Fellow and Deputy Director, Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
June 7, 2011
CFR's Gayle Tzemach Lemmon leads a conversation on the role of women in Afghanistan's civil society, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.
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