Young Women Who Grew Up Without the Taliban Fear Their Return
May 03, 2021
Sultana Karimi applies makeup on a customer at Ms. Sadat’s Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Kabul s young working women say they fear their dreams may be short-lived if the Taliban return to Kabul. (AP)
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Sultana Karimi works in Ms. Sadat’s Beauty Store in Afghanistan’s capital. She found bravery and her love for beauty in the store.
She and the other young women working or training in the store never experienced the rule of the Taliban over Afghanistan.
Young women, grown up without Taliban, dread their return By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press
Published: May 2, 2021, 6:02am
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8 Photos Sultana Karimi applies makeup on a customer at Ms. Sadat s Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Kabul s young working women say they fear their dreams may be short-lived if the Taliban return to Kabul, even if peacefully as part of a new government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) Photo Gallery
KABUL, Afghanistan Inside Ms. Sadat’s Beauty Salon in Afghanistan’s capital, Sultana Karimi leans intently over a customer, meticulously shaping her eyebrows. Make-up and hair styling is the 24-year-old’s passion, and she discovered it, along with a newfound confidence, here in the salon.
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Inside Ms. Sadat’s Beauty Salon in Afghanistan’s capital, Sultana Karimi leans intently over a customer, meticulously shaping her eyebrows. Make-up and hair styling is the 24-year-old’s passion, and she discovered it, along with a newfound confidence, here in the salon.
She and the other young women working or apprenticing in the salon never experienced the rule of the Taliban over Afghanistan.
But they all worry that their dreams will come to an end if the hard-line militants regain any power, even if peacefully as part of a new government.
“With the return of Taliban, society will be transformed and ruined,” Karimi said. “Women will be sent into hiding, they’ll be forced to wear the burqa to go out of their homes.”
Reuben E. Brigety II, vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South, Carla Koppell, senior advisor for diversity, equity, and inclusion and distinguished fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, and Jamille Bigio, senior fellow for women and foreign policy at CFR, discuss how insufficient leadership, outdated curricula, and alienating school climates leave future foreign policy experts ill-prepared to address the social forces contributing to fragility and unrest globally, and provide their recommendations for a comprehensive educational strategy that improves national security and strengthens U.S. diplomatic capacity.
Read the CFR discussion paper on the topic, authored by all three speakers, here.