Mar 04 2010
Our friend Nicolas Kristof writes in today’s New York Times about a child-bride in Yemen – which is located very near to Somaliland – who was granted a divorce at the age of ten. She is now a best-selling author! Nujood’s memoir spent five weeks as the No. 1 best-seller in France. It is being [...]
Feb 05 2010
February 6 is the International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and a panel was convened by Nicholas Kristof at the conference last week in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the issue:
An estimated 120 to 140 million women have been subject to this harmful and dangerous practice and 3 million girls continue to be at risk [...]
Dec 27 2009
In this review of Half the Sky in the NY Review of Books, Sue Halpern discusses the plight of women in the developing world.
For Westerners, the words “gender inequality” are likely to suggest pay differentials and glass ceilings and old-boy networks. For the women and girls Kristof and WuDunn write about, gender inequality is [...]
Dec 22 2009
A writer at the Huffington Post has suggested that Nicolas Kristof’s book Half the Sky should be considered the most important book of the decade. Steve Leveen writes:
But what if we could have known in 1962, the year of its publication, that Silent Spring would contain a message of change necessary to save our very [...]
Sep 26 2009
Nicholas Kristof has taped a full one hour on Oprah where he speaks about his new book, Half the Sky, in which Edna Adan is featured prominently.
This Oprah program is tentatively scheduled for broadcast on Thursday, October 1.
Sep 07 2009
Pullitzer Prize winner and NY Times columnist Nicolas Kristof has taped a full hour program with Oprah where he discusses his new book, Half the Sky, which prominently features Edna Adan. We don’t yet know the exact date that the show will be broadcast but is expected to be shown in early October. Watch for [...]
Aug 19 2009
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn will publish their new book in September, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. That book is previewed in the NY Times Sunday magazine issue of August 23, 2009 and it can be read online here: The Womens Crusade. Edna Adan [...]
Nov 14 2008
We are so pleased that the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicolas Kristof has, once again, linked here from his Blog at the New York Times.
A Stoning in Somalia
Incidentally, for anyone interested in Somalia, there is a superb aid project in the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland: a maternity hospital run by Edna Adan, a former [...]
Aug 27 2008
Nicolas Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist at the New York Times, writing in a new blog entry has again cited Edna Adan as being someone whom he “hugely” admires.
I’ve often recommended that young people go and live abroad for a time, the better to understand the world — and also the better to [...]