‘I still have nightmares of Afghanistan.’ A female journalist escaped the Taliban, but she is not free.

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except in critical jobs that cannot be done by men. Girls can no longer attend secondary school. Young girls are forced to marry Taliban soldiers.

And when women do speak up, or even just walk outside without a man, they can end up in prison. When they get out, Hosseini said, their families often disavow them, ashamed that they broke the rules. They become"They literally have no place to go," she says. And, "God knows what happened to them in the prison."

After women began posting pictures of their injuries on social media, the Taliban began beating them between their breasts and between their legs so they wouldn't share images, the Amnesty report said. of the country doesn't have enough food. Among families headed by females, 98% go hungry. Hosseini is now in graduate school at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.

When Hosseini fled Kabul, she reached the U.S. at a remarkable moment. Her plane touched down at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on the morning of Sept. 11, 2021. It had been 20 years – almost to the minute – since al-Qaida terrorists based in Afghanistan had launched their attack. In the time since then, the Taliban had fallen, and risen again.

 

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