Fresh Air, Paul Van Zyl and Leila Ahmed
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Narrated by:
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Terry Gross
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By:
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Terry Gross
About this listen
Program Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice, Paul Van Zyl and Professor of Women's Studies in religion at the Harvard Divinity School Leila Ahmed on this edition of Fresh Air. As program director for the International Center for Transitional Justice, Paul Van Zyl helps emerging democracies to reckon with the human rights abuses in their past. Van Zyl is from South Africa and was the executive secretary of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The center is now working with the UN to design a justice policy for post-Taliban Afghanistan. The International Center for Transitional Justice is located in New York City. Leila Ahmed has written extensively on Feminism and Islam, and is the author of a new memoir about growing up in Egypt during the 1940s and 50s. It's called A Border Passage: from Cairo to America - a Woman's Journey. (Broadcast Date: December 3, 2001)
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