Zahra Joya on Telling Stories of Afghan Women | TIME
Mar 3, 2022 · Zahra Joya was 5 years old when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and banned girls’ education. Undeterred, she dressed in boys’ clothing and walked two hours to and from school every day.
Zahra Joya - Wikipedia
Zahra Joya was born in a small rural village to a Hazara family in Bamyan Province in 1992. She was 5 years old when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. From 1996 to 2001, they banned almost all education for girls.
She’s Running the New York City Marathon for All Afghan Women ... - ELLE
Nov 5, 2021 · Zahra, a 29-year-old Afghan scholar, will be running the New York City Marathon on Sunday on behalf of all the Afghan women at home who aren’t able to run due to Taliban rule.
After fleeing Taliban rule, Zahra Joya is shining a light on the ...
Sep 19, 2023 · After fleeing Taliban rule, Zahra Joya is shining a light on the struggles of Afghanistan's women Link Copied! She once disguised herself as a boy to go to school.
How this Afghan TV news anchor became a refugee, and is still …
Nov 28, 2022 · Meet Zahra: Journalist. Single Mum. Refugee. “Since I was a child, I wanted to be a journalist, especially a TV news presenter,” says 32-year-old Zahra from her home in High Wycombe, Southeast England. For ten years, Zahra worked for the government-funded news channel RTA in Afghanistan.
Asics? Check. Hijab? Check. Meet the Afghan Student in New …
Sep 15, 2017 · It’s been three years since twenty-year-old Zahra Arabzada, an Afghan student at New York’s William Smith College, began running in a hijab. And while she’s grown more immune to the reactions...
Zahra Joya - Forbes
May 15, 2024 · Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist who founded news agency Rukhshana Media to publicize otherwise untold stories of women and girls in Afghanistan and to support female journalists in the country.
Afghan journalist who was Time magazine cover star on ‘pain’ of …
Jun 7, 2022 · Zahra Joya, who was one of Time’s women of the year in 2022, is currently living in exile in London after escaping the Taliban in Afghanistan at the end of August last year.
Afghan woman journalist stands up to Taliban
LONDON, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, Zahra Joya dressed as a boy and called herself Mohammad, allowing her to circumvent the Islamist group's ban on girls going to school.
Afghan Journalist: ‘This Is a Hard Time for Afghan Women’
Mar 15, 2022 · Named one of Time magazine’s "Women of the Year," Afghan journalist Zahra Joya says she is determined to keep reporting on women’s issues in Afghanistan.