The Cal Poly International Center hosts a virtual presentation with guest speaker and Professor Emerita Maliha Zulfacar and moderator and Professor Dawn Neill titled “Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: A dialogue for engagement and understanding of women’s lives (at risk).” The documentary “Kabul Transit” co-produced and co-directed by Zulfacar can be viewed by the campus community prior to the talk via this link to the Cal Poly Library. 

Maliha Zulfacar, Ph.D. is a renowned educator, researcher, author and filmmaker with experience spanning the U.S. and Afghanistan. She was an Afghan university professor and the ambassador of Afghanistan to Germany, as well as a Professor at Cal Poly earning the Faculty Woman of the Year Award and the Distinguished Faculty Award.

This event is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts; Interdisciplinary Studies Liberal Arts; Social Sciences; Women’s, Gender and Queer Studies; and Men and Masculinities Program. The panel will cover gender-related issues from cross-cultural and international perspectives. To find out more about International Women's Day and ways to celebrate, visit the International Center website or the Facebook event page through March 11. Then get ready to join the #BreakTheBias #IWD2022 conversation.