
spent about $1 billion on education for Afghan women and girls-with some marked success. Women’s education was perhaps the single strongest sign of change and hope for the new Afghanistan. withdrawal after 20 years of war, thousands of Afghan girls and women have been shut out of their high schools and universities, their studies over and their lives and futures in flux.īefore the Taliban seized the capital without a fight, about half the 20,000 or so students at Kabul University, the country’s oldest university, were female. In the two months since Afghanistan’s government collapsed, amid the chaotic U.S.



That was the last time Farah saw her beloved university.
