Afghanistan, an “elephant in the room”
On Jan. 1, among other visitors and groups of advocates in front of the White House, a large group of Afghans was immediately noticeable.
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On Jan. 1, among other visitors and groups of advocates in front of the White House, a large group of Afghans was immediately noticeable.
August 17, 2021. A hot day, after a long night of sleeplessness. I’m in a crowd of hundreds of people. My father leaves my sisters and me at the first checkpoint: Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan.
I am one of the eight new BOLD-SOLA Leadership Scholars that were evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 17, 2022, to Qatar, then to Kigali, Rwanda. Now we are all here, at Middlebury College, ready to start our academic careers, but thoughts of home — what it is, what it means and where to find it — linger.