Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

NYT Best Selling Author, Adj. Sr. Fellow, CFR. All views own. RTs not=endorsement.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@natsecHeather Written in 2016. Note how little has shifted in cultural blindspots. https://t.co/wsjrfV4yfi

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@burkese @CarlosLozadaWP This is absolutely a structural issue and a visible cultural blindspot for many.
Please see this piece. I wrote it in 2016 and little has shifted since.
https://t.co/wsjrfV4yfi

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@debbiemanz Oh, thank you. I am inspired by the brave people with whom I've had the privilege of interacting -- always and especially this past six weeks. So much courage and tenacity in the face of so much heartbreak.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@DanLamothe Thinking so much of Nancy Dupree. @RohdeD. I found out was pregnant while in Kabul finishing Dressmaker. Met so many remarkable young women who became breadwinners during Taliban rule. Nancy would say, "Gayle, at some point you put your backside in the chair and start writing."

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

Researched 1st book at @acku2007 Found notes from Taliban 1st meeting w/ NGOs in
'96 when group swept Kabul. Sought UN seat, issued rules: no high heels, mandated burqa, no laughing on street. No women out w/o male chaperone. Now comes 2021. Same discussions now lie up ahead.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

Amazing and moving.
https://t.co/OP951o5EkH

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

Kamila is truly a remarkable person. And her story runs in parallel to that of her beloved #Afghanistan.

[Sara Just @sarajust]

If you read @gaylelemmon ‘s moving book The Dressmaker of Khair Khana - and if you didn’t- you will want to hear the update on this courageous Afghan woman entrepreneur this week https://t.co/PYfVz6iRXD

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

I wrote this for @washingtonpost.

https://t.co/8Q9DqcfJsl

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

The book shares story of a young #entrepreneur whose business created jobs and hope for families around her community during Taliban rule. Today so many brave girls were stepping up to lead their communities. Now they are trying to figure out how to survive until they can flee.

[Kristen Marie @KristenProdigy]

Heavy #heart today. I'm #praying for the #women of Afghanistan and those that aided our armed forces for years. So, I'm reading about a #girl who changed the world. #TY for telling her and dressmaker stories @gaylelemmon

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@NasimShamsia @TRF_Stories This is an absolutely amazing story and one for our time.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

Afghanistan is a nation filled with young people working to decipher their futures amid true fear. A country with young women & young men whose lives show that the quest for human dignity does not stop at the Afghan border. Thinking of them as they think through what to do next.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@clay_hanna @KSPrior @EkGaetan @kkdumez @LeahBSassy Indeed. Those on the ground speaking of it with urgency, fear and dread of what is to come.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

This is a question asked in Syria. Now, urgently, asked in Afghanistan. With best thoughts, @Orzala

[Orzala🇦🇫 اورځلا ✨🔥 @Orzala]

This phase of war & violence brings the discourse around #R2P under huge question & whether the post WW2 UN still remains an effective mechanism for securing peace or do we need another global mechanism for that?

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@jack_ryan46 They were not pro-Talib. But how dangerous and how threatening you saw the Taliban (& Vice & Virtue forces) depended on how far you lived from power. Girls who had been studying felt the brunt of it. Intl officials who knew the civil war often felt they could negotiate with them.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

I think of women I interviewed in Kabul on life under Taliban in 1990s for my 1st book. And how different their view was from international men I met who worked with global NGOs, UN, etc. "They stole my future from me," a young woman said in our meeting. "They took my education."

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@CFB25008218 I am so glad to hear that you read "The Daughters of Kobani" with your bookclub. A privilege to share this story. Next time let me know and I will join you via Zoom! Warm wishes --

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

Thrilled to share this at last. Next book. Out 2/16/21. On the women who stopped ISIS. More soon and more here: https://t.co/D15hJoBoqp

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

@RobJoswiak @PaulRieckhoff @StateDept Yes.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

Afghanistan is a nation filled with young people working to decipher their futures amid true fear. A country with young women & young men whose lives show that the quest for human dignity does not stop at the Afghan border. Thinking of them as they think through what to do next.

[Gayle Tzemach Lemmon @gaylelemmon]

From Afghanistan on Afghanistan

[Fahim Abed @fahimabed]

Being an Afghan journalist in Afghanistan is like writing a story about different fires in your house and report the burning of each part, despite your family members being stuck there and you can’t help them.

Just in case if you don’t know how it feels.