Sonia Nassery Cole (Dari: سونیا ناصری کول; born 1965)[1] is an Afghan-born American human rights activist, filmmaker, and author.
[2] At seventeen, she wrote a nine-page letter to President Ronald Reagan about the situation in her country and pleaded for help and sought to meet him.
She was instrumental in raising funds used for various necessities such as the construction of a hospital for women and children in Kabul, medical care for land-mine victims, and other causes.
She became a board member for the organization along Henry Kissinger, Prince Albert of Monaco, Anne Heche and Susan Sarandon.
[5] The film, which premiered at the Ariana Cinema Theater on September 23, 2010 and screened at the NATO base as well as an American Embassy, was distributed by SnagFilms,[6] and is about a family in Kabul opening a restaurant business after the fall of the Taliban regime.