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Yalda Hakim: ‘My phone rang. It was the Taliban’

The Times
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Yalda Hakim: ‘My phone rang. It was the Taliban’
Yalda Hakim: ‘My phone rang. It was the Taliban’

As a baby, Yalda Hakim’s parents paid people smugglers to get them out of Kabul. Now she’s a star foreign correspondent who has reported from Syria and Ukraine, but it’s Afghanistan — and the plight of its women under the Taliban — that keeps drawing her back.

Yalda Hakim routinely

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