Review by bethmitcham - A Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player

A review by bethmitcham
A Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player by Shehzil Malik, Michelle Lord

4.0

Although is starts with the dreaded “not like girls who play with dolls” I enjoyed the rest of this biography of Maria Toorpakai Wazir, a Pakistani girl who defied the Taliban to play squash. There is no attempt to justify the discriminatory practices that oppress females.

A review by bethmitcham A Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player by Shehzil Malik, Michelle Lord

A review by bethmitcham
A Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player by Shehzil Malik, Michelle Lord