Sarah Chayes
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Sarah Chayes (b. Washington, D.C., 1962) is a former reporter for National Public Radio.
She graduated from Harvard University in 1984, with a degree in history. She later served in the Peace Corps in Morocco, returning to Harvard to earn a master's degree in history and Middle Eastern studies, specializing in the medieval Islamic period.
Chayes began her reporting career free-lancing from Paris for The Christian Science Monitor and other outlets. From 1996 to 2002, she served as Paris reporter for National Public Radio, earning 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards (together with other members of the NPR team) for her reporting on the Kosovo War. She has also reported from other nations.
She has lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan since 2002. Having learned to speak the Pashto language, she has helped rebuild homes, set up a dairy cooperative. In May 2005, she established the Arghand Cooperative, a venture that encourages local Afghan farmers to produce flowers, fruits, and herbs instead of opium poppies, by buying their products and producing soaps and other scented products from them for export.
She is the author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban, published in August 2006.
[edit] External links
- Sarah Chayes, from The Transom Review
- "American Activist Finds Her Calling in Afghan Hot Spot", by Declan Walsh, from the Boston Globe, May 9, 2006
- Sarah Chayes photographs
- Arghand Cooperative site
- Sarah Chayes speaking in Washington, DC., September 7th 2006 BookTV, Woodrow Wilson Center
- Andover notable alumni
- Foreign Affairs Canada
[edit] Listening
- Sarah Chayes interview from Democracy Now!, October 10, 2006
