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Bookmark or Share- Helping tell Sola’s story - Stanford NewsStanford undergraduate Malaina Kapoor (right) helped Sola Mahfouz write her journey fleeing Afghanistan in pursuit of an education. Their book, Defiant Dreams, was recently published.
- She secretly educated herself to escape Afghanistan. Now, she ...Mahfouz recounted her determination to educate herself, her decision to leave Afghanistan and her harrowing journey to cross the border into Pakistan in her 2023 memoir, “Defiant Dreams,” which...
- Determined and Undeterred: A Young Afghan Woman Educated ...Sola Mahfouz writes how she pursued an education in isolation in Afghanistan, starting with online kindergarten math as a teenager
- 'Defiant Dreams' memoir tells of Afghan woman who risked ...In 1996 — the year Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan — the Taliban took over the country for the first time. Under a brutally repressive regime, the Taliban banned girls from...
- Author Sola Mahfouz to talk about her struggle to get an ...Sola Mahfouz is a pseudonym. She explained in a telephone interview that it protects herself and family members still in Afghanistan. Sola means “peace” in her native language, Pashto. It is a common name in many Afghan families who have lived through the turmoil of war. Mahfouz is the Arabic word for “protected.”
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