{"id":38968,"date":"2021-11-16T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/16\/mohadese-mirzaee-female-afghan-pilot-refuses-to-be-grounded-taliban"},"modified":"2021-11-16T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:00:25","slug":"if-i-can-get-a-plane-into-the-sky-i-can-do-anything-female-afghan-pilot-refuses-to-be-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38968","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If I can get a plane into the sky, I can do anything\u2019: female Afghan pilot refuses to be grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months after Mohadese Mirzaee became Afghanistan\u2019s first female commercial airline pilot, the Taliban took Kabul. Now a refugee in Bulgaria, she is determined to fly again<\/p>\n<p>Sitting alone in her small flat in Bulgaria, Mohadese Mirzaee contemplates the future. Three months ago, she left behind her family, and her dream job, in Afghanistan. At 23, Mirzaee was the country\u2019s first female commercial airline pilot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I don\u2019t know where to go, but I\u2019m not giving up. I\u2019ve started applying for pilot jobs anywhere because I know I need to get back to flying,\u201d she says by phone from the capital, Sofia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/16\/mohadese-mirzaee-female-afghan-pilot-refuses-to-be-grounded-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after Mohadese Mirzaee became Afghanistan\u2019s first female commercial airline pilot, the Taliban took Kabul. Now a refugee in Bulgaria, she is determined to fly againSitting alone in her small flat in Bulgaria, Mohadese Mirzaee contemplates the fu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"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":[46,665,6,59,1203,78,494,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-airline-industry","category-business","category-global-development","category-inequality","category-life-and-style","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","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\/38968","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\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38968\/revisions\/38969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}