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Soraya Tarzi

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Soraya Tarzi (1899-1968)
The Human Rights Queen of Afghanistan
1920s Afghanistan was a progressive and rapidly-modernizing country in large part to the most powerful, empathic, and maligned queen it had ever seen.
February 6, 2017 in Weird History

The Princess, the Con Man, and the Ill-Fated First Contact between Afghanistan and the United States

In 1921, when Afghanistan sent its first delegation to the USA, it didn't get an audience - because there was another one there, unbeknownst to them. What follows gets weird.

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