Students speak of their heartbreak after the Taliban banned university education for women ⤵️ 🗣️ “I think I’ve lost my future. I’ve lost everything” 🗣️ “A woman’s life in Afghanistan is like being a bird imprisoned in a cage'
Afghan women chant slogans in protest against the closure of universities to women by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan Khujesta*, 21, was sitting with her family on Tuesday night discussing her graduation party when she heard the news of the“I couldn’t control it, my tears just started. I couldn’t stop them,” she toldShe had recently started the fourth and final year of her civil engineering degree at Kabul University and wanted to start planning a celebration.
“You know when you are so near to reaching your dreams and you hear something like that, it is completely unbelievable.” The announcement earlier this week by the minister for higher education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, sent shockwaves rippling through“In a couple of minutes, all of my friends on our WhatsApp group were asking, ‘Did you see it? Did you see it?’” Khujesta said.Shortly after the university ban was announced, thereportedly also banned women from attending education centres and girls from primary schools, which would amount to a total ban on female education.
Khujesta’s goal was to do a master’s degree and become an engineer. She wanted to help build her country. “I have always dreamed about this,” she said.Other women have expressed their sorrow, including Aysha*, 20, a psychology student at Kabul University. “I can’t describe my feelings right now, it really breaks my heart,” she said.Zinat*, 21, who was in her fourth year of an engineering degree, was reading a book by the Turkish author Elif Shafak when her friend called to break the news.
She described feeling “hopeless and helpless”, adding: “It is difficult in my country, how strong should we be, to be able to endure these orders.“They even beat the girls to keep them away from the campuses. All of us were disappointed, and went back home with tears in our eyes.”of the capital, Kabul, to express their fury.
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