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She founded an Afghan girls school. Now she runs it in exile.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, was taught at an early age by her parents that education is worth the risk, a lesson that has guided her through two Taliban regimes.

2024-04-15    

It was the fall of 1996, and girls’ education had just been outlawed; teachers and parents risked death if they were caught allowing girls to attend school. The younger child, six-year-old Shabana Basij-Rasikh, dressed as a boy to pose as her sister’s mandatory male chaperone. They’d hidden books in their bags for classes taught in secrecy. One day, suspecting they’d been followed, the sisters begged their parents to stop sending them. The parents refused: Education was worth the risk.

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