Masuda Sultan

Masuda Sultan (Kandahar 1978) is an Afghan American entrepreneur,[1] memoirist, and international human rights advocate.

[2] Sultan arrived in the United States at the age of five and was raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens .

[5] Masuda returned to Afghanistan in December 2001 and learned that 19 members of her family were killed in an October 2001 US air raid[6] 60 miles north of Kandahar.

She also witnesses music playing on the streets of Kandahar and girls attending school, both of which were illegal just months prior.

[8] The program set a historical precedent for civilian casualties inflicted due to errors in war.