When Taliban forces seized control of Kabul last year, many Afghans faced life-changing choices. One family's decision led to a harrowing journey for a young woman and her sister.
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Bushra Seddique wrote about her escape from the Taliban for the September 2022 issue
And she's reported on "What Afghans Want the Rest of the World to Know"
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Is the Age of Reading Over?
People may be reading now more than ever (emails, texts, social-media posts). But fewer and fewer people are reading actual books. The Atlantic’s staff writer Rose Horowitch, who wrote the August cover story, “The End of Reading Is Here,” explains what might be lost in a “postlit ... Show More
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Mar 2022
From Kabul’s airport to Virginia’s burbs
The world watched in horror as tens of thousands fled Afghanistan last August. Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah meets with an evacuee still stuck in immigration limbo.
This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey ... Show More
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Jun 2023
The New Afghanistan, Through the Eyes of Three Women
<p><i>This episode contains descriptions of violence.</i></p><p>In the two years since the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, the Taliban has shut women and girls out of public life.</p><p>Christina Goldbaum, a correspondent in the Kabul bureau for The New York Times, trave ... Show More
40m 19s