. >> of the next sally kitch talks about the experience as a professional afghan women and their plight in the country following years of war and civil strife. she is joined by two of the women profiled in the book, afghan judge marzia basel and women's education activist jamila afghani. >> good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon. my name is michael kugelman, the senior associate for south asia with the wilson center's asian program. thank you all for coming. before forget i just want to thank our institutional cosponsors which are the middle east program and also the wilson center's global women's leadership initiative. i also wanted to welcome those of doing this on c-span. as you all know afghanistan is experiencing a great period of uncertainty. international combat troops have left a fragile new unity government is in place. the taliban has been ramping up its attacks of late including in kabul. and once again and there are rumors of buttons to start these talks between the afghan government and the taliban. in recent days the chinese reportedly hosted taliban and afghan governmen

. >> of the next sally kitch talks about the experience as a professional afghan women and their plight in the country following years of war and civil strife. she is joined by two of the women profiled in the book, afghan judge marzia basel and women's education activist jamila afghani.