What is Awista Ayub?
[[File:Awista Ayub at United Nations' Young Changemakers Conclave 2012 (1).jpg|thumb|Awista Ayub]] '''Awista Ayub''' (c. 1979) is an [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] writer. She formed the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange in the [[United States]]. In her novel ''Kabul Girls Soccer Club'', first called ''However Tall the Mountain'', Ayub writes of eight girls brought to the US to learn [[soccer]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Gale Group online|title=Awista Ayub|url=http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/GLD/hits?r=d&origSearch=true&o=DataType&n=10&l=d&c=3&locID=mtlib_5_683&secondary=false&u=CA&u=CLC&u=DLB&t=KW&s=1&NT=%22Afghan%22|access-date=18 April 2011}}</ref> The Afghan Youth Sports Exchange has grown from the first 8 young women to hundreds playing through the [[Afghanistan Football Federation]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.awistaayub.com Home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612145352/http://awistaayub.com/ |date=2011-06-12 }} {{person-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayub, Awista}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1979 births]]