Story Launcher Books

Farzana Ebrahimi was born July 1981 in Kandahar,
Afghanistan to an educated and opened-mind family. Her mother was a teacher and
her father a hydraulic engineer. Farzana founded Kandahar’s Health and
Development Organization to support women in Kandahar when she was only 24
years old. She trained hundreds of women in educational projects after the Taliban
was removed from Afghanistan from 2001-2010. Farzana worked for over a decade for
gender equality and was a women’s rights activist in Kandahar. She moved to
northern California in 2010 and continued to support Afghan women from there.  Farzana Ebrahimi was the woman of the month in
June 2010, as a remarkable woman ON Lifetime TV in America because of her
efforts for Afghan women’s rights.

Gender equality was her passion when she was only 8 years
old. Farzana took off her hijab in the middle of a hot summer in Kandahar and ran
from school to home. While winds touched her hair, she asked herself why she
needed to wear a Hijab, while boys did not? In the closed society of Kandahar,
her ideas were rejected. She believed in women’s rights and wanted to bring
change for women in Kandahar, and continued her path. Farzana received an
honorable bachelor’s degree in leadership from Northwood University of Texas. Farzana
has loved writing since childhood and spent long years indoors writing about all
the events in Kandahar. She was jailed at home as a teenage girl by the Taliban
from 1996 to 2001. Farzana Ebrahimi began her professional writing career when she
moved to California.