A photographic journey through the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan | Kiana Hayeri

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Exposing what life looks like in Afghanistan after a 20-year US occupation and the Taliban's stunning and rapid takeover, TED Fellow and documentary photographer Kiana Hayeri captures harrowing glimpses and multifaceted realities of a war-torn country. Through the lens of her camera, she documents devastation and deferred dreams -- but also resilient hope and spirit.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:07.4	It's hard for us to know the scale of devastation and hardship in Afghanistan, now that the brutal
0:13.2	Taliban regime has taken over once again.
0:16.8	But visual storyteller and Ted fellow Kiana Hyeri has not stopped bearing witness.
0:22.3	Her Ted 2022 talk focuses on the intimate stories of hope and struggle, as the country fell
0:28.6	back under Taliban rule.
0:31.2	Following the talk she takes questions from Shoham Arad, the director of the Ted Fella's
0:35.6	program.
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