{"id":47661,"date":"2022-08-19T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T06:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/19\/we-fled-the-taliban-one-year-later-new-home-and-hope-afghan-journalist"},"modified":"2022-08-19T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T06:15:07","slug":"we-fled-the-taliban-in-chaos-shock-and-terror-a-year-later-we-have-a-new-home-and-hope-zahra-joya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47661","title":{"rendered":"We fled the Taliban in chaos, shock and terror. A year later we have a new home and hope | Zahra Joya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My work as a journalist made us targets. Now we have a safe new home and I am determined to keep reporting on the bravery of Afghan women and girls<\/p>\n<p>Just over a year ago, I watched in horror from my window as Taliban gunmen appeared on the corner of the street in my beloved Kabul. Now, a year on, I am writing this from my desk in my family\u2019s new home in London. We have our own walls to paint, a kitchen to prepare meals in, my young niece has her own bed. From my window I can see our new neighbourhood and can finally dream of new horizons for me and my family.<\/p>\n<p>For the past year, after the terror, chaos and shock of our evacuation from our homeland by the UK government, we have been living in a state of limbo in a hotel in central London, along with 400 other Afghans who also found themselves refugees overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist living in London and the editor-in-chief and founder of Rukhshana Media, a news agency reporting on life for women and girls in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/19\/we-fled-the-taliban-one-year-later-new-home-and-hope-afghan-journalist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work as a journalist made us targets. Now we have a safe new home and I am determined to keep reporting on the bravery of Afghan women and girlsJust over a year ago, I watched in horror from my window as Taliban gunmen appeared on the corner of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2600,"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":[46,59,494,61,44,52,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/47661","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\/2600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47661\/revisions\/47662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}