{"id":36808,"date":"2021-09-13T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/13\/taliban-west-girl-education-afghans"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T07:00:15","slug":"i-know-how-it-feels-to-live-under-the-taliban-this-time-the-west-must-not-turn-its-back-sana-safi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36808","title":{"rendered":"I know how it feels to live under the Taliban. This time, the west must not turn its back | Sana Safi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a girl in the 1990s, I struggled for an education in underground schools. Afghans face a return to those dark times<\/p>\n<p>With my phone in hand, I walked up and down the fifth floor of New Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. It was mid-August and I was trying to get in touch with my sister in Afghanistan. The phone kept ringing but there was no answer \u2013 she never misses my calls, even when she\u2019s working.<\/p>\n<p>On the seventh attempt, I heard the noise of the rush hour in Kabul, followed by her: \u201c<em>Guly<\/em>\u201d, \u2013 or \u201cHi hon\u201d, as we might say in England. \u201cWhere have you been?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/13\/taliban-west-girl-education-afghans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a girl in the 1990s, I struggled for an education in underground schools. Afghans face a return to those dark timesWith my phone in hand, I walked up and down the fifth floor of New Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. It was mid-Augu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,53,61,44,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36809,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36808\/revisions\/36809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}