Profiles of Remarkable Women: Laila Enayat-Seraj
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Channel: Library of Congress · 2018 · Education
This interview with Laila Enayat-Seraj, conducted in Istanbul by Mary-Jane Deeb of the Library of Congress, is part of a series that highlights the achievements of six exceptional Muslim women from Afghanistan, the Arab world and Turkey who not only have worked hard to attain personal success but have done much to help other women in their communities as well. Speaker Biography: Laila Enayat-Seraj, the daughter of a former Afghani ambassador to Egypt, studied at the American University in Cairo. Returning to Afghanistan, she got married, but when the Russian invasion took place she fled to the U.S. where she continued her studies in international affairs. She joined the United Nations in Geneva and worked for various organizations including UNDP. But her real love was art and poetry, and she has translated from Persian the poems of an Afghani poetess who wrote 1,000 years ago. For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8177
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