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so. How does Jimmy was twenty three years old when we first met, but we almost didn't she was so shy. I thought she might cancer first interview. It was february and providence, rhode, island brown, you where's the campus was covered in about a foot of snow. I must highlight the student center. We talks for so long, but she invited me to dinner. It was around seven thirty in the dining hall when jammed with students standing in long lines since she got to brown sahel had been struggling to find things she could eat so she's. To her usual, which was cheese, beaten, salad. She that at least the dining hall offer an ice cream. Tell me how much she missed her mothers cooking, specially her mothers cobbling pullao esteemed rice, the cat it's the reasons and me and just how that about a foot on campus, spoke to her.

sue. Hella is an afghan refugees who fight kabul. Last summer she got to brown around christmas right before the next semester started and decided to take mostly philosophy classes, thinking they help her process. This whole transition into a sudden new life as a university students in america, I remember she told me she was feeling numb having a hard time connecting with many of the other students She said she was basically just serve. Having. Meanwhile, so hellas family was so trapped in afghanistan. her mother, had health issues and trouble walking and so hillock and soon they stressed about their safety. I heard about it: to rescue a group of a hundred and fifty young afghan women out of the country after it fell to the taliban. They were asked Hence our alumni of the asian university for women. Sailor was one of them the day they fled,

Ghana scan the women were told, be going to bangladesh to continue their studies, but instead they ended up an army base in wisconsin and then three months later they were dispersed around the. U s: two ten different schools places like brown and cornell the university. Of delaware and north texas and arizona state Sahel a spot as a non degree. Student at brown for the twentieth Any one. Twenty twenty two year, which meant that her few, beyond the academic year, Totally unknown Women have cell Hell his group under a fairly liberal afghanistan they are the ones I met told me they'd, never even seen a member of the taliban until last august and before then had known it. The Bonn only through stories, their mothers, told them on august,

He ain't Sahel. I was in her room in kabul scrolling through facebook on her phone watching videos. At the time. Bonds, encroachment on the capital and then her mother came into her room and broke the news. It was official, The taliban had just entered the city sue I remember she was so frightened. She couldn t she like something was wrong with her and her mother was just like that taiwan can kill you. If you call yourself first eat something they hugged for a long time now, since the vietnam war has there been an evacuation of civilians, large is, but we saw last year and Afghanistan, starting last summer An emergency action called operational Malcolm batman, Seventy thousand afghan refugees to the? U s in situ, in that sir hail and many other afghan women like her found themselves, we see what it looks like.

to be the collateral damage of major foreign powers decisions in the day gave long war in afghanistan. The country twenty million or so women have always had the most to lose. This sale said to me was just history repeating itself So here my article she's at brown for hard so in kabul senora, uncanny This was recorded by autumn tools into more stories from the new york times the new year, Wicker vanity, fair, the atlantic and other obligations on your smartphone down item on the app store or the placed or visit autumn that you d am dot. Com for

more details. it was late February. When so, hayleigh hush emmy slid into one of the last available seats in the front row. For our philosophy class, the place of persons, an interest of course, at brown university the moral and metaphysical status of person hood even though she was twenty three, and this was a class, mostly for students who were several years younger, hush amy you fit in with them her dark brown. Air pulled into a messy ponytail eyeliner or darkening, her lower lids and oversized hoodie with browns emblem on the front black genes doctor Black combat boots and causation. She wrote me articles in her no book trying to capture what Professor sighed ass, he lectured.

Sometimes she struggled to understand certain english words. She would look them later sure was about free will and determinism are. We. as free agents. In role of our actions, professor, was asking all our actions determined by a previous chain of events and for not in our control, hush Emmi crossed her legs and shook her foot up and down ass, she listened intently and if we are not, responsible for our actions, how can we, I live in a just and moral society. The professor asked whether it was Settle to blame and punish people when their acts his word determined by events beyond their control. Yes, some in the class said because punished could serve as a social deterrent. The professor as pie,

a discussion about an article by the british philosopher, pf straw, sin turn with an example showing why that might be problematic. hold that a sheriff and a crime ridden town frames and in the man for some crimes and punishes him publicly. So as to date, others from committing crimes. This would seem to me most social utility, but at sea It is unjust, right. hush hermes face felt. When was this exists? Bull about the taliban, sometimes It seemed ass if her professors were speaking to her directly, but Allah Bonn, she believed, were the sheriffs now brewing by an arbitrary and a moral set of principles and in

your country's population at their mercy. Almost seven months earlier on august, fifteenth twenty twenty one hush Emmi was sitting on her bed in her family small apartment in Kabul, too afraid to go outside instead scrolling through facebook and watching videos of the taliban advances when her mother and turned her room to confirm her worst fears. The city had just fallen at the time She had two semesters left to complete her undergraduate degree. Instead, she would soon be smuggled out of the country with one hundred forty seven other young afghan women. They had been told they were able to continue their studies at the asian university for women. experimental liberal arts college in category bangladesh, whose support errors have included Hillary Clinton,

three blair laura bush and former prime minister Paul near rasmussen of denmark some of the women were alarmed of a u w, while others. Are still enrolled there, but I, Studying remotely in kabul the women, never made it to, but a dash after circuitous and difficult journey. They ended up at an. Army base in the american MID west. There They joined thousands of other afghan refugees, desperately awaiting updates from families back home. While at this time preparing to continue, or in some cases, restart from scratch, their studies on american campuses and once they found places at schools on and he remained about both their immigration status. They would be. humanitarian parole

two years from the time they entered the united states to apply for asylum and they would be able to stay through graduation. the women knew how much they were leaving behind their country, their families, their hopes for their future. They also knew so many afghans were not being allowed into the united states or other countries that they Or the lucky ones but Hashemi did not feel exalted to be here in amerika. She spent her days, pin bawling among exhaustion, despair and a sort of cautious optimism. She knew that other afghan girls dreamed of getting an opportunity to study at an ivy league college, but I was scared to start all over again. She says her experience like those of most of the one hundred forty eight women was

going to resemble that of their stereotypical college. Freshmen, no drinking games fraternity, parties or class schedules that revolved around going somewhere for spring break. I wish I could freely walk with my family here or somewhere. We could all be safe, hush, emmy hold me during my visit to the brown campus in february her family was haze, our ay a persecuted, nick minority in Afghanistan. Some of her siblings had managed to escape the country, but her and we're still stuck in kabul, all the moms and dads drop their kids from school hug them wish them off. But between me and my mom is a ten our difference and when I need or the most I want to all her, but she is asleep when the philosophy class and

students, toting backpacks, spilled onto the narrow, concrete pots winding around the red brick buildings. Had to lunch shore, the library hi semi, had one more meeting with a professor to discuss an essay before she was done for the day and return to our dorm and call her parents before they went to bed. She reed about their safety all the time and told her that she was free now let her life was her own mind. She told me ass. We walked through campus right now Oh I'm struggling like how does revive here, she said I'm too tired. I guess freedom and free will is something humans create for themselves. Even if inside a cage is day. the desire to fly, they can create their own freedom.

She paused. I guess I'm creating freedom for myself. come all ass mad, the founder of asian university for women was his home in boston when, after I stand, fell a friendly ok man whose smile seems to express and inexhausted all optimism. I've medway for once, feeling If he did, he had been having four months to travel to afghanistan to over the evacuation of a? U w students there, that was no longer possible by august fifteenth he spent them its leading up to that day, sleeping little. instantly, reaching out to his afghan students and alumnae trapped in the country. He felt personally responsible for their safety here and a u w in chittagong his home town in two thousand

and eight, for young women from asia and the Middle east who were ass, he put it to me typically bypassed the education system. himself moved to the united states when he was fifteen to attend phillips, exeter academy after and she went on to harvard he did not want a? U w to be socially elite. He says the approach was a lot of flexibility at entrance, no flexibility. Exit. We wanted to find these young women and prepare for the world. Can't stand was a major locus of a. U double use recruiting efforts Ten days after the taliban entered couple Mad had managed to secure seven rusty buses to transport The one hundred and forty eight calls them to the cities airport. It took three separate attack.

to get them out. The is worse, stopped and shot at by the taliban multiple times and at one point a suicide bombing occurred only a few hundred meters away, killing more than one hundred eighty people The women were dehydrated and hungry and had no access, to a toilet. One was pregnant. I'm dying. I dont want to live anymore, another message to mad from the bus over. What's up, why, You put us through this man's attempts to secure a private jet had failed so women's only way out of the country was on a: u s: military jet, which took them not bangladesh, but to you, spaces for in saudi arabia, then spain the unknown to them ass, mad. Faced a difficult

while they were in spain, either request that they be again to bangladesh, his regional plan or Let them be transferred to a refugee camp in the united states and hope that they would be able study there. Instead, in the end decision came down to simple arithmetic and told me if I'm I moved one hundred fifty to the u s than I I have one hundred fifty beds open and bangladesh and the offer unity to get more out of afghanistan. Seventeen days after the taliban took over Kabul. The way began arriving at the fort mccoy. U s. Army base in south western wisconsin. Nearly thirteen thousand and other afghan refugees were already living their part of emergency evacuation by the. U s government

scale not seen since the vietnam war of seven hundred thousand or so afghans who were forcibly displaced from their homes by the two. the last year more than eleven, sent of them ended up in america. The effort called duration allies welcome, resulted from an emerging action ordered by the Biden, administration and seen by the department of homeland security to support vote a bull afghans. closing those who worked alongside the americans during the past two decades and now faced taliban reprisals rather than power, through the usual drawn out refugee process always backlogged, with applications of majority of incoming afghans were granted humanitarian parole, a temporary author authorization that allowed them

to stay in the united states for two years. This sort of parole is given only rarely for groups are mass. in nineteen. Seventy five, for example, when the united states about waited more than one hundred twenty thousand vietnamese just before the fall. saigon gone nineteen ninety six, when six thousand six hundred kurds were evacuate, from Iraq. The fact that the women I'm a! U w had been university students working on or undergraduate or masters degrees back home in afghanistan afforded them no special data is at fort Mccoy. There are very few clear: practical durable pathways for refugee. and displaced students to come. The u s to study and stay Miriam I'll glum executive actor of the president's alliance on higher education and immigration, told me we can

and should do much more, whilst Sense of afghan children were entitled to unroll in K through twelve classes, at u s public schools a nineteen eighty two supreme court ruling play the dough holds that states cannot deny students. free public education on account of immigration status, the status The EU w students was different main classic. As a refugee student at a university doesn't, let you cut the visa line basically says are they lenin. Nunez Wong code, actor of client advocacy, add to hurry justice centre in washington, one of several organisations that is involved in helping the eu w women file for asylum. This meant these women, for whom Education had been a lifelong priority. Faced a difficult question,

Would they be able to continue their studies and unexpectedly, whole presented itself. university as temporary refuge in twenty eighteen area and mac, then professor of psychology, at the new school for social research in new york, founded the new university in exile consortium, a group of nearly sixty universities around the world. That again, Two hosts displace scholars from countries where their lives or endanger the goal. Mac explained to me was create a sense of community for persecuted academics, so that exile didn't become a sec exile on campus itself after the taliban. Return to power mac was contacted by someone from a member university who had heard about the afghan women from mad and one

to know whether the consortium could help place them in schools, the weighting of the a? U w. Women exposed a gap, The system the women were too old to be placed in public schools but they were too young to be considered scholars or professors, the sorts of figure, is that the new university in exile consortium focused on this was the first time We got into the business so to speak, of rescuing mac, says so we expanded our mission. Not long after the women arrived at fort mccoy look consortia Contacted to associate provo said brown university J rowan and saw bay paloma Word brown be able to take some of the women. This fall. We didn't know all that much at the time about the asian university for women. Paloma browns

Souci provost for a global engagement, told me, but the fellow? sophie behind the liberal arts, curriculum really resin. did for us. Will conversations were underway elsewhere. We ve different schools, interested indifferent, aptitudes cornell, for example, for students who could work in various labs there in both the hard sciences and other disciplines and become adapted life in the. U s prior to see admission to cornell initiate dubai coronel associate vice provost for international affairs. Put it the unit, the city of north texas, Specialized english training programme for the younger women, who were still becoming fluent in english brown, interested in students who demonstrated a strong academic record and intellectual Oh curiosity, man asked is three

person administrative staff at a you w to put together a portfolios for each of the women that included brief biography. he's, an their transcripts. Whenever a school it verbally to admit one of the women Charles who lab a lawyer and founder of the washington advisory firm, bearing tim global. Who was, providing help. Pro bono don memorandums of understanding stating the women would be hosted as a degree earning student for duration of an undergraduate degree or in some cases a graduate degree. A condition to which some of the schools would end up. Agreeing. A few universities, like arizona state, signed right away, other there's like brown, we're reluctant to commit You anything binding the I already was to make sure these girls had the best shot humanly possible to succeed,

lab told me. At the very least the ammo. You created a moral obligation to commit to them at fort Mccoy. hush me had heard the rumours that she and her a cohort would be true. Foreign into american universities, but she was sceptical it would happen. I was The schools wouldn't trust afghan girls. She says a few of the women declined to continue their studies. Opting to jobs instead, but in fact, ten university were interested in taking them in arizona state brown. Now, delaware de georgia, state north texas, suffolk wisconsin, Milwaukee and west virginia. Some of them offered immediate acceptance, while other required, more extensive applications in november hush

to her surprise, received an e from brown requesting that she write separate essays about her personal story. Her academic enter and our goals and dreams. She No computer, so she drafted essays on her cell phone after She says she's. to enable every second league. Happens is for the EU. W women arrived by december. fourteen women ended up at brown nine Coronel, sixty Heaven and arizona. State fifteen at the university of delaware. All of them would be on full scholarships. Cut. By donations, raised by the universities, a u w estimated. The total need would be two million dollars Each school had a different arrangement, arizona state university. The women were invited to unroll for up to eight semesters

some who already had credits from a? U w got to enter as juniors or seniors. Calls. Ten students were invited to stay until they completed their undergraduate degrees, so long, They didn't interrupt their studies and company did their degrees. In five years. Other schools offered a more precarious arrangement, add cornell the women were led him as visiting in terms for the school year at brown the fourteen women were considered non degrees, special students for that twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two academic year, nobody there was sure what would happen after may hm

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labyrinth of highways and glassy buildings. she wondered, did I up here that summer she showing her ten year old brother, a map of afghanistan pointing to the Evans is that had fallen. Dominoes to the taliban, her father Ran and ngo dedicated to women's empowerment had been threat by the taliban in the past and he was almost certainly considered one of their targets. The morning they took over ten years his father rushed home, shaken thing has failed heat. this family they ve taken off the city center here, he had never seen him look so broken. It just felt like the last days are freedom of being able to choose your lifestyle. She told me.

Soon after they got to the arizona, stayed campus. The way from a u w were ushered into an orientation session, organised by the international rescue committee, which was closed, answering the group and helping oversea their resettlement in off the air conditioned lecture hall, Shanna bow and arrow nation specialist. What the irish sea gave them a three day called: Rural orientation, her powerpoint present She began with a single long to woody, got land is your land. Then bell began explaining. goal. American behaviour smile be polite beyond time be self reliant alive on a graph that evoked in e case g, showed them that their adjustment period as they occur, did to american life, could take to five years and go through four phases of integration.

A honeymoon period of relief, then culture shock which include anger and grieve then, covering and finally somewhat ambiguously. The adjustment does I've does the time when you feel like the: u s is your home and feel confident. Solving your own problems get your own decisions and future for yourself I assured the women that their rights were equal to those of the man in america. She told They enjoyed freedom of speech and the right of Is their opinion just Everyone else does, including the present and of the united states? some of the women stood up to clap the rhetoric. Was familiar from the western influences in afghanistan. During the last two decades. Time. It was hard to believe They could have a right equal to that of any american president

or their own lives had been abandoned by the whims of american president's for decades. In some ways they been less in control of their future. Is the women spent there First days in arizona, drawing Find their way around the maze of buildings and manicured green lawns, they often needed the gps their phones, to find them way back to their housing a modern hotel, a jason to the areas you campus. They had never seen such a sprawling campus A u w and bangladesh consists ed. single dorm cafeteria and building for their classes. Along with a handful of other buildings surrounding a small lawn when arizona state filled again after winter break below

pulsing base of music spilled from the windows of dorm rooms, especially on weekends, from parties that the afghan women were not invited to in class Messrs spoke, vast, complicated english. The amount Then students always seemed busy. They show Little interest in Afghanistan or its politics, I think the whole, afghan cohort, they're kind of excluded to hear, he told me one evening ass, we sat on the terrace of the hotel, serving as they are dorm. She or genes tucked into brown boots and a cable net pink sweater. U S, life is so busy. She said: it so hard to catch up I'm following ukraine, they are talking senators. If I'm following senators they're talking about grace.

clearly not at a point of like mutual a conversation to hear he had always been ambitious about her future and she was excited by the fact of being able to learn more about computer engineering, a field she had heard in which the job prospects were good, but at times she They found it difficult to focus on the future. When the past was constantly on her mind on one wall of her room. She had written memory, wall and taped dozens of prey did grainy photos of her parents, her six, doubling her friends her home. some mornings when she woke up feeling so demotivated. She would look the photos and think I have to keep going. decided to sign up for classes in computer science, A mining English

and swimming on the first day of her computer science clause. She panicked when she saw that her text would cost one hundred twenty dollars. I thought either I have to drop the class or talk to the professor. She told me when she gathered courage to tell the professor that she was one of the sea from Afghanistan he extended a fist for her to bump. I'm so proud of you, he said his department, gave her a scholarship for the book when started to hear He found herself struggling to connect with the other students. They came from different worlds. She said. It was a complaint. I heard from many of the afghan women at several applause. Some told me that american students took no interest in them. Others said that American students took too much interest in them and they were tired

explaining what was happening back in afghanistan, its like a movie for them? one woman who ended up ad cornell, who asked to be named for privacy reasons, told me people there are always watching dramas in everything she added. But for me it's my real life. to Harry marveled at the discipline with which our new classmates limited themselves, too. Small healthy meals. There are trying Do you know, boil broccoli worked out. I was in kind of guilty, because I was not going to the gym. She said everyone, every day there like waking, then going to the gym. Dining holes which had been served. afghan food for the women when the campus was deserted, were suddenly filled with to hear he had never tried before food from mexico, Spain. China

decided to try something labelled vague in she. Had we'll swallowing what she took to be a soggy. Looking piece of meat, vague in said to her friend joking I dont know what country, that is on the first day of swim, lessons one of her extra, a regular courses. The instructor asked, here already knows how to swim. There were about twenty five students and all of them raise their hands except to hearing one of her afghan friends and a woman, from sudan she was shocked, why would so many students sign up for lessons when they Will he knew how to swim? Here. He found herself relegated to a shallow kitty, pool feeling shy and exposed, as the other students plunged into the deeper pool She had a severe water phobia. She told me and To the edge of the pool

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She was writing about descartes meditations and she had quest. It is about it. I went with her to meet her instructor, a graduate student whose office was in a corner of the philosophy department, a small boy, building with carpeted floors and narrow, were it oars. I need help with meditations one in two. She told teacher. Her voice barely above a whisper from his point of view, thing is certain and everything is doubtful. So, what's his argument, was hard for hashemi to always stay focused on her studies, even though the Buildings and the campus, which is partly employ caused by a wrought iron fence made. Brow I feel like the safest place in the world for her. Her reading was regularly interrupted by disturbing calls from her family about a new person missing or about the country impending famine

or about another explosion. There, Seems to be no end in sight for them news from Afghanistan. Sometimes my mind is saying only you have our problems, only problems show me told me one evening mode, of her family was still trapped in kabul and mother had health issues that made it difficult for her to walk her. Helplessness here, eight at her constantly in her full us The classes she could be in conspicuous listening to lectures on quietly taking notes, unlike most other eu w women. She spent much of our time, Studying in her room or in the library keeping a low profile, but so many people on campus seemed so eager to talk. I just waiting like please

he's. Don't ask me where I'm from she said it was a bit hard for me to tell them I'm from Afghanistan, stew, often had misconceptions about what afghan women were capable of. She felt they frequently seem shocked to find out that afghan women could travel abroad, ores, english, go to universities. She does I to me one incident when she was having her regular breakfast of bagel and butter. Her non. She joked with few other afghan women at a brown cafeteria, a group of boys, sat at their table and asked where they were from Afghanistan, harsher me said the boy got up and moved to another table. Hush emmi angry called her mother afterward. This is not going to be a good country for me, because people are judging me. She said

She felt depressed for almost a week, though she lay acknowledged that she was sure why they switched seats. She found it difficult to late to other students who the time of my midwinter visit were already in plans for their spring breaks, Michael states here. They are thinking about to go for the next vacation or holiday or weekend, and I'm thinking how I get a job to help my family as the sum sir advanced. The women began getting troubling updates from back home the taliban and we're going after perceived enemies and using restrictions on women? Accordingly, witnesses cited in a report from human, its watch the taliban, and were searching office buildings collecting shooters and walking down women who work for the foreigners, every

you w student, I spoke to felt a deep fear for her family. Back home. More than once I spend hours interviewing someone only our withdraw access. A few days later, fearing unknowable consequence. Many too line to speak to me at all one student who wish to remain anonymous, told me that her sick had been a member of afghan intelligence. Now that simple was in hiding changing locations every few weeks, because that Lebanon were hunting down any one who had worked for the afghans? security forces, the woman's father ring for their safety, wouldn't let her younger the leave their house, I can't it out of my mind. The woman hold me fighting tears. I can't find anyone does what my family

situation in afghanistan is so much worse, another student forever. Sir worry, ten year old student at suffolk university told me that every night for months after she got to asked him she in bed grip with loneliness listening? the songs from Afghanistan I feel so bad. Why did this but to my country. for these young women who came of age in the early two, thousands in IRAN. Tivoli, liberalize country. This was not a return to older ways of life. It was the right erection of a dark era. They knew only through stories passed down from their mothers accounts of being beat for dressing improperly, before leaving the house without a male escort when Kabul fell. I felt a part of me taken shall create, a key

studying at brown told me we thought this is not the as we have been brought up. It's not a country, I want to live in, according to the fifteenth doors, sixth century ones. Do told me that one of her fathers neighbors had married off a daughter to a taliban commander and one father went over to the neighbor's house for dinner one night. The taliban Husband was there and confronted her father. about his daughters, leaving the country where are they america, her father, lied and told that a bond that they were married and had moved abroad for your husband's jobs. four hush hashemi studying a card gave her a new language to navigate her split worlds. The During her meeting with her philosophy teacher to go over the reading, the teacher

a piece of paper and drew a mob of descartes's argument against sensory beliefs I spoke as if she were working through a mathematical equation, so on the first, age. He saying I gosh everything I believe, may be called into doubt everything hashemi asked yeah everything remember he's sitting in his arm chair in his living room- and he says I'm going to use the method of scepticism to call breathing into doubt either his existence, hush emmi, asked Pressing a laugh, exactly the teacher said: together, they went through descartes's method for approving his existence. We can really know for certain went his argument is that we exist That makes sense now, as we want

back to her dorm room, afterward, hashemi, still thinking descartes said she believed It was silly for him to question his own existence Sometimes she too felt as if she wasn't sure was real here a snowy campus improvidence. Instead at home with her family in Kabul. If I close my eyes, I remember the bad things she told me. I experienced them, but still, I feel like it's better I think it was all a bad dream and it ever happened, beginning next august the humanitarian parole, will expire for many, of the afghans who fled the country a year ago, potentially stripping them of their access to health care, employment the legal right to live in the united states, while activists have been

pressuring congress to pass an afghan adjustment act like that nineteen. Seventy five vietnamese refugee act that would put the act. And on a fast track from pearl to citizenship, It's been little legislative progress, congo, did, however, recently mandate the fast or processing their asylum applications and until kay is our resolved the object this can remain in the united states, the women from a? U w. Have lawyers from several large firms working pro bono on their asylum applications. Since last august, w has received about ten thousand application, and from young women in afghanistan has already turned his focus to the women still stuck in the country, in june he flew Islam abide to kabul where a coup

from the taliban waited for him on the airport, tarmac as drove to central kabul to meet with high ranking taliban leaders.

The city looked much the same to him ass, it always had the markets were busy, the traffic was chaotic, but at least one change was visible. He could see no women on the streets anywhere ass man told me he went because he wanted to be out in the open with the taliban about his next project, to enable one thousand young women to leave afghanistan in the next five years, so they could continue their studies and bangladesh. His hope was that these women could then help educate young girls in afghanistan who have been prevented from attending schools by teaching them online. When he proposed the plan to the taliban over ten sweets. The immediate response to meds relief was not now. It was about logistics. He says it was not about the central idea of girls education, the taliban.

and told him that are more hiram, a man relative that women by mandate must travel with in public would have to occur. Bunny every woman who wanted to attend a? U w. The cost was It is for a u w. So now med is faced with the daunting question and he got a thousand women out of the country- to study abroad alone, and even the women get out. There is no good in tee of stability wearing Are they land in the united states, a majority of the ep, you w students know what their immediate futures hold see you suffolk. nepal and west virginia, for example, committee. Early on to let their students Until they complete their degrees, others face more uncertain circumstances. At brown women's status as non.

Agree. Students was extended through this spring Twenty twenty three semester. Three women who had already completed their undergraduate degrees from a? U w have been admitted as full time. Traditional masters degree students, but there seems confusion among some of the women still pursuing their undergraduate degrees over one, might happen next hush He told me that, as far she knew she had a spot, at brown as a degree earning students. This fall. yet rowan and paloma the associate provosts overseeing the women. There told me that There were no guarantees the women who had not yet finished their undergraduate degrees were being encouraged to it I too brown and to apply elsewhere. Rowan said later he added we do not get n t admissions for any applicants and

his own estate. situation was a little more settled the way who already had undergraduate degrees like to hear he were given the up in of pursuing a masters. The rest were invited day until they completed their undergraduate degrees. Taste three opted to get a masters. She felt ready to think cautiously about her career and to live like an adult, as You put it. She had addressed however, during the semester, a love for it, data analytics and she got a summer. turned ship working remotely for a bit. Data firm based in California, not before I left arizona to hear hosted small gathering of friends for home, cooked up and food and her hotel room earlier in the week she had disk a middle eastern grocery store that sole bags of rise from the afghan province. Her father was raised, in

She was overjoyed to find it proudly exhibiting the sack of rice to everyone in the room whenever a male afghan friends had come over to cook while to hearing served me black tee. If the two, The sees this man cooking for a woman. They would not be happy said, with a laugh, pointing a friend ass, he swept chopped cucumbers, from cutting board into some yogurt. The music of our yonah, a popular after singer played from our phone as well. About why the younger generation in afghanistan was fleeing in droves. We grew up with the taste of freedom and we could not go back. Harry explained, as we took it's on the floor. Next to an array of juices fruits- and aiming part of chicken bear Jani the afghanistan she had known

vanished the moment she got to Kabul's airport last august, hold me. Her very last memory from Kabul continued to haunt her. after she and the other women finally made it through to the airport, they were handed off to the? U s: military, high ranking taliban commander, who told you ass lieutenant in English I surrender them- do you now and then too, one surprise: he began to cry. I hear you couldn't get that tab blow out of her head, the bird, the commander and a cave these seven slung on his back here on his face, the bewildered- u s, officer receiving them. What nagged at her was that she still didn't know why he had been crying either it's because you did something that was against his belief,

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