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Masuda Sultan (Kandahar 1978) is an Afghan American entrepreneur,^[1]memoirist, and international human rights advocate.^[2]

Biography

Sultan arrived in the United States at the age of five and was raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens .^[3] She attended local public schools and attained her master's degree in public administration from the John F.

Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.^[4]

She is the author of My War at Home, a memoir reflecting on her life as an Afghan American, in which she speaks of conflicts arising from her need for independence in the scheme of Afghan traditional culture, for example, her arranged marriage with an Afghan man.

She is one of the founders of Women for Afghan Women.^[5] Masuda returned to Afghanistan in December 2001 and learned that 19 members of her family were killed in an October 2001 US air raid^[6] 60 miles north of Kandahar.

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