دانلود رمان انگلیسی “آخرین زنان آزاد”

When Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, every Afghan who had worked for The New York Times suddenly faced a substantial risk of reprisal. The collapse of Afghanistan and its capital shocked the world. There was legitimate reason to fear that the new regime would imprison, kidnap, or even kill those who had worked for a Western news organization. I was then a deputy managing editor at the Times, and I became closely involved in a furious effort to evacuate and resettle more than two hundred Afghan journalists, staff, and their families. Led by publisher A. G. Sulzberger; David McCraw, the Times’ deputy general counsel; and Joe Kahn, now executive editor, the operation included a long line of heroic reporters, editors, and staff, especially those on the ground in Kabul. The Times, other organizations, and many vets scrambled to evacuate the Afghans who had taken great risks to help them over the course of a war known for its brutality. Close to 200,000 Afghan people reached the United States in the aftermath of Kabul’s fall, representing the largest influx of wartime refugees since the Vietnam War. Two weeks after the fall of Kabul, the Times was able to get a group of 124 employees and their families to Houston in what is believed to be the largest private sponsorship in modern American history. From the moment I got to know the young people in our group— especially the women—they worried about how they could restart their lives and education. I became obsessed with helping them. One of the first acts of the Taliban was to ban school for girls past the sixth grade. The girls and young women who escaped, as well as those who continue to try to study behind closed doors in Afghanistan, are part of a revolution that can’t be easily extinguished. They also represent one of the most enduring accomplishments of the longest war in US history.