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A Death in Kabul  \n2. The Last Day in Afghanistan  \n3. Tayeba’s Escape  \n4. The Last Flight Out  \n5. NoWay Out  \nPart Two: Building Justice  \n6. A Sisterhood Formed in Vermont  \n7. An American in Kabul  \n8. Nafisa: A Pioneer  \n9. Anisa: The Advocate  \n10. Anisa: A Supreme Court Nomination  \n11. Nafisa: Tackling the Narcotics Trade  \n12. Raihana: The Next Generation  \n13. Raihana: The Right to See the Sky  \n14. Tayeba: The Promise of Return  \nPart Three: Judges in Exile  \n15. Somebody Else’s Shoes  \n16. Year Zero  \n17. Buddies  \n18. A Tree Transplanted Takes Time to Grow  \n19. The Conscience of the Nation  \nEpilogue  \nAcknowledgments  \nNotes  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nAugust 2021: Women’s Night  \nIMAGINE IF THE BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE IS THE ONE YOU spend in the dark. It’shot—very hot, because all the power has gone out. There are no breezes to cool you, and no lights to see by. You are a woman in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, and for the first and only time in your life you can creep outside and sit and talk to other women. For hours you can talk together about your lives, your family—your dreams. You can laugh and be free. Then as the sky lightens you have to slip back into the shadows, alone, silent, smothered. Into the true darkness. If only the power would go out every night, you say. If only we could have this night of freedom again.  \nThis is the night Raihana Attaee remembers. These were the voices of the women she heard every day in her courtroom, where she sat as a judge and passed judgment on the men who attacked them, oppressed them—and often, easily, killed them.  \n“On the back of the Nangarhar court building, a small door opened to the driveway of the Nangarhar court family houses. There were six houseson the driveway, three on each side. Six judges’ families occupied those houses.” The houses were old and in poor condition, but the judges were happy to live there, Raihana says, because it was too dangerous to live outside the court compound. Five of the homes belonged to men judges; one belonged to Raihana, a Hazara woman judge with a small family who had moved there from Kabul.  \n“In the year I lived in the Nangarhar court’s house, I could not see a woman’s face,” Raihana says.“When I had the chadari on, I could not breathe normally. I could not see where I was walking. My eyes became  \ntired and dizzy. When it was hot, I sweated and felt smelly. I felt sorry for those women who had to wear the chadari each time they left home.” The women were at home all day, and rarely went farther than the driveway.  \n“In summer Nangarhar becomes very hot; it goes above 104 Fahrenheit. People use large water coolers to cool their houses. The electricity was not stable, and sometimes it cut off. On one of those days in the middle of summer, the electricity disconnected. We waited for a while, and it did not come back on. When there was no electricity, no one could stay inside the houses, as they became too hot. Everyone had to come to the yard to find a shadow and wait for the electricity. After hours of sitting in the yard, the sky darkened, and there were no stars or moon.” Raihana’s husband, Maqsood, received a phone call from a friend telling him that all the men had gathered in front of the cou","cbCail9ulHkn7Jnt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail9ulHkn7Jnt","pdf",1921502,233,"English","# Prologue\n## Women’s Night\n# Part One: Escape\n## A Death in Kabul\n## The Last Day in Afghanistan\n## Tayeba’s Escape\n## The Last Flight Out\n## No Way Out\n# Part Two: Building Justice\n## A Sisterhood Formed in Vermont\n## An American in Kabul\n## Nafisa: A Pioneer\n## Anisa: The Advocate\n## Anisa: A Supreme Court Nomination\n## Nafisa: Tackling the Narcotics Trade\n## Raihana: The Next Generation\n## Raihana: The Right to See the Sky\n## Tayeba: The Promise of Return\n# Part Three: Judges in Exile\n## Somebody Else’s Shoes\n## Year Zero\n## Buddies\n## A Tree Transplanted Takes Time to Grow\n## The Conscience of the Nation\n# Epilogue\n## Acknowledgments\n## Notes","[{\"question\":\"What happens during Women’s Night in the prologue?\",\"answer\":\"Women gather in the dark when electricity is out, talk freely, laugh, and dance without men supervising or judging. 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