In the Name of Honor
A Memoir
The Pakistani woman who was raped on the order of a village council, refused to stay silent, and used the compensation to build a school.
Mukhtar Mai was assaulted on the order of a village council in Punjab in 2002, in a case that was expected to end in her silence or her suicide. Instead she pressed charges, won, and used the compensation to open a school in her village. Written with Marie-Thérèse Cuny, her memoir is about the decision to speak and what followed it.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
She talked to her about how she became known around the world because of this episode where she was raped, essentially at the order of a village council in Pakistan because one of the local big families said her brother, who I don’t think was even a teenager, had allegedly assaulted one of their daughters. In fact, he had only been talking to her.
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