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  • The name Joya has great significance in my country.

    A Woman Among Warlords Malalai Joya 2009

  • He opened the door and told the receptionist to write out the address for what he called Joya del Mar.

    Willow V.C. Andrews 2002

  • He opened the door and told the receptionist to write out the address for what he called Joya del Mar.

    Willow V.C. Andrews 2002

  • He opened the door and told the receptionist to write out the address for what he called Joya del Mar.

    Willow V.C. Andrews 2002

  • Joya is marginal, she's sectarian, she doesn't know how to behave, and besides, she never did anything anyway (setting up an underground school for girls when the Taliban was in charge, taking on the misogynist warlords still running much of the country and withstanding five assassination attempts in the process, don't seem to count).

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Joya is marginal, she's sectarian, she doesn't know how to behave, and besides, she never did anything anyway (setting up an underground school for girls when the Taliban was in charge, taking on the misogynist warlords still running much of the country and withstanding five assassination attempts in the process, don't seem to count).

    Trash talk 2009

  • In Afghanistan, Joya is dimly remembered for these things, but is otherwise beautifully useless, and is in fact understood as largely an invention of the western media, anyway.

    Trash talk 2009

  • In Afghanistan, Joya is dimly remembered for these things, but is otherwise beautifully useless, and is in fact understood as largely an invention of the western media, anyway.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • The name Joya has great significance in my country.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • The name Joya has great significance in my country.

    rabble.ca - News for the rest of us 2009

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