Books by Niloofar Rahmani, R. D. Sykes (1)
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Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot by Niloofar Rahmani, R. D. Sykes EN
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Niloofar Rahmani was born in 1991 in Kabul, Afghanistan, just a few years after the Soviets left, and during the rise of the Taliban her father took his young family to Pakistan, where they lived for nine years as refugees. Then, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the international coalition's invasion, the Rahmani family returned to their home in Kabul. In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed females to join the military, and Niloofar entered Afghanistan's military academy. However, the professed openness of the new Afghan military could not surmount centuries of ... continue