Best Of: Women In Afghanistan / How College Broke The American Dream

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🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Over this past year, the Taliban have broken their promises to allow girls to continue their schooling and women to keep their jobs. Many girls and women are disappearing — arrested for violating the morality code, or abducted and forced to marry one of the Taliban. We talk with British/Iranian journalist Ramita Navai, who went undercover to speak to women who were victimized by the Taliban, and women working underground to help women escape brutality. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is called Afghanistan Undercover.

Also, we talk with Will Bunch, author of After the Ivory Tower Falls, about how college tuition became so expensive, driving students and parents into debt.

Justin Chang reviews the film Ali & Ava.

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0:00.0	From W-H-Y-Y in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:05.6	Today, going undercover to document the Taliban's crackdown on women.
0:10.8	Over this past year, the Taliban have broken their promises to allow girls to continue their
0:15.7	schooling and women to keep their jobs.
0:18.4	Many girls and women are disappearing, arrested for violating the morality code or abducted
0:23.6	and forced to marry one of the Taliban.
0:26.0	We'll talk with British Iranian journalist Ramitna Navai who went undercover to speak
0:31.0	to women who were victimized by the Taliban and women working underground to help women
0:36.3	escape brutality.
0:38.0	Her new PBS frontline documentary is called Afghanistan Undercover.
0:42.3	Also, we'll talk with Will Bunch, author of After the Ivory Tower Falls about how college
0:47.8	tuition became so expensive, driving students and parents into debt.
0:53.1	Just in child review, the new film Ali and Ava.
0:58.8	This month marks the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and
1:03.8	the departure of US troops.
1:06.1	Over the course of the year, the Taliban have intensified their crackdown on women's
1:10.1	rights to the point that women have been erased from public life.
1:14.4	When out on the street, women are expected to be covered from head to toe with only an
1:18.8	opening for their eyes.
1:20.9	With a few exceptions, they're no longer allowed to work.
1:24.2	Girls aren't allowed to go to school after sixth grade.
1:27.5	Women and girls have been disappearing and prison for breaking the Taliban's morality
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