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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Last Free Women: A Daring Escape from Afghanistan & Coming of Age in America
DESCRIPTION:When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021\, Rebecca Blumenstein\, then a top editor at The New York Times\, was deeply involved in the company’s effort to evacuate more than 200 Afghan colleagues and family members\, eventually resettling 124 people in the United States. Among them were four young Afghan women who had been on the path to careers as doctors and lawyers.\n\nJoin co-authors Rebecca Blumenstein and Diana Kapp in conversation with Mursal Rahim\, one of the women profiled in The Last Free Women: A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America\, and journalist and novelist Anna Quindlen. Together they will discuss the extraordinary evacuation and the journey of Mursal\, Marwa\, Maryam and Samira as they build new lives in America.
UID:150726-21910013@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150726
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Afghanistan,Diaspora,focus on women,human rights,immigration,International Law,international policy,Journalism,Muslim
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre, Fourth Floor
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