If 15-year-old Sonita had a say, then Michael Jackson would be her father and Rhianna her mother. Sonita is an Afghan refugee living in Tehran. While Sonita’s family hopes to marry her off for a $9,000 dowry, happy-go-lucky Sonita works as a cleaner, goes to school in the refugee camp with other teenage girls, and dreams of becoming a rapper. “Let me whisper to you my words. So no one hears that I speak of selling girls…” Despite the fact that women in Iran aren’t allowed to sing in public, Sonita, armed with rap, starts a holy war against the forced marriage of under-aged girls.

The YouTube clip of Sonita Alizadeh’s song “Brides for Sale” has been viewed more than half a million times. The young musician has become a kind of feminist icon in the West – Sonita has been invited to participate in conferences devoted to women’s rights, and she has captured the interest of MTV, Teen Vogue and The New York Times.

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