it takes a lot of time to get to the plane. it was a really tough time. i received a lot of messages from different friends and people from town that the taliban came to kabul, and most of my friends, they left their houses and they sent a text message to me that, where are you? i was in the airport. it was a really, really difficult time for me. now, kamila, you refer to your friend gayle, who helped make arrangements to get you out, and of course, gayle wrote the book the dressmaker of khair khana, which was about your extraordinary life as a young woman, you set up as a dressmaker and you then found a way to help other women in kabul living under the taliban in the 19905 to make a living out of sewing and dressmaking. yours is an extraordinary story you are, let s face it, a very famous afghan woman who has worked in government, you ve worked in business. do you think you wouldn t have got out, had you not had these contacts outside the country?
as a young woman, you set up as a dressmaker and you then found a way to help other women in kabul living under the taliban in the 1990s to make a living out of sewing and dressmaking. yours is an extraordinary story you are, let s face it, a very famous afghan woman who has worked in government, you ve worked in business. do you think you wouldn t have got out, had you not had these contacts outside the country? yes, i really, really appreciate gayle s support and the other colleagues that helped with gayle. it was really difficult for me if i stay in kabul, because, as you mentioned, there is a book, the dressmaker of khair khana, that during the taliban, when the taliban came to afghanistan, i started a small business with two of my sisters in my home and then we create jobs
i received a lot of messages from different friends and people from town that the taliban came to kabul, and most of my friends, they left their houses and they sent a text message to me that, where are you? i was in the airport. it was a really, really difficult time for me. now, kamila, you refer to your friend gayle, who helped make arrangements to get you out, and of course, gayle wrote the book the dressmaker of khair khana, which was about your extraordinary life as a young woman, you set up as a dressmaker and you then found a way to help other women in kabul living under the taliban in the 19905 to make a living out of sewing and dressmaking. yours is an extraordinary story you are, let s face it, a very famous afghan woman who has worked in government, you ve worked in business. do you think you wouldn t have got out, had you not had these contacts outside the country?
you are, let s face it, a very famous afghan woman who has worked in government, you ve worked in business. do you think you wouldn t have got out, had you not had these contacts outside the country? yes, i really, really appreciate gayle s support and the other colleagues that helped with gayle. it was really difficult for me if i stay in kabul, because, as you mentioned, there is a book, the dressmaker of khair khana, that during the taliban, when the taliban came to afghanistan, i started a small business with two of my sisters in my home and then we create jobs for 150 other women, especially there was two other two girls that their father was talib and the two girls was working for me.