![]() ![]() MORE: After 9/11, Brennan Basnicki is living his father’s legacyĮssazada is particularly vulnerable. Today, those same people are fleeing Afghanistan. It was a period of hope, when tens of thousands of young people went back to school, when money poured into the country and new universities opened people like Essazada-bright and determined-were finally given the opportunity to shine. I got a job and started being active in my society.”Įssazada belongs to Afghanistan’s post-9/11 generation, a cohort of educated young people who have come of age since the fall of the Taliban regime. “I grew up after 9/11 I went to school after 9/11 I graduated from university after 9/11. “Childhood was kind of magical,” Essazada, 25, recalls. The constant rumbling of construction equipment in her city hinted at the smooth roads to come, like glistening rivers cutting through the shiny new buildings that seemed to appear every day, almost out of nowhere. For a child, she recalls, the shadowy group of bearded religious extremists didn’t seem real they were like monsters in a nightmare world that existed in her parents’ imagination.įor her, the world was very different: there was school to go to and friends to play with, though the landscape around her was still pockmarked with the remnants of war. There were no Taliban, apart from the stories she heard from her family. Two decades ago, as a five-year-old in Mazar-e-Sharif, the future was a universe of possibilities for Hadia Essazada. #Azada rash series#This profile is part of a series called ‘Living in the shadow of 9/11,’ which looks at how the worlds of five extraordinary people changed, twenty years later. Hadia Essazada (Photograph by Farrah Skeiky mural photograph: Wasim Mirzaie) ![]()
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