Split by the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education in Afghanistan, the sisters hoped to reunite in the US. But new ...

SOLA was forced to flee Kabul when the Taliban assumed control of Afghanistan in August ... beyond a sixth-grade education. Last summer, as SOLA's high school students practiced public speaking ...

She went on to recount how she founded The School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA), the first ... leave home and finish high school abroad. That summer, as I comfortably pondered my own potential ...

In Kabul and across Afghanistan, the secret schools are opening again ... I took this picture in Qatar, back in the summer of 2021, at the midpoint of SOLA’s departure from Afghanistan and ...

We caught up with them this summer, just before they toured the ... a smaller mosaic of the beautiful, diverse Afghanistan." The school quickly gained international prominence; its musicians ...

Hajera gave birth to her daughter, Sarah, in Kabul two weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan last summer ... the beginning of a luckier time. Schools were opened to girls.

Need abated during the summer, but winter would come again ... Most girls’ high schools remain closed in Afghanistan.Credit...Kiana Hayeri for The New York Times For two decades, the United ...