When the Taliban Took Kabul, She Fled, and Made a New Life in New York
Briefly

Ms. Baran, a law specialist for the country's largest bank, was part of a generation of idealistic, Western-educated Afghans who had pledged to rebuild their country as it emerged from years of conflict.
Her story is one of liberation from the Taliban, who were notorious for oppressing women but also of loss for what she and other promising young people could have done for their home country had they not felt their lives were in danger.
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