New to the Parish: Manizha Khan came to Ireland from Afghanistan in 2021
The family remained in Pakistan for almost 17 years before returning to Afghanistan in 2004.
“Men would say to us while at work: ‘If you don’t want us flirting with you, then why are you here? You should be at home’.Listen |“I realised that if I wanted to work as a respectable woman in Afghanistan I would have to be a teacher or a lecturer or a similar job. I studied dentistry and I became a lecturer in paediatric dentistry. Then I became dean of the dentistry school at a university,” Khan says.
“Since then everything has changed. I am not in Afghanistan any more, but my heart is always there,” she says.December 2022: A female lecturer at a university in Afghanistan has said she was disappointed, following bans by the Taliban-led administration on women attending universities“Afghanistan is now just a nation of men. Girls are at home, watching their male classmates graduate. Their only option left is to become brides to the Taliban.
Khan and her family knew they had to leave, and spent some time “hiding in Kabul until we were able to go”. She and her family then secured visas to come to Ireland and arrived in December 2021. “A family gave us their home here for a few months. It was so kind of them. Then we found somewhere else to live. I managed to start work here as a dental nurse again, and I have a radio show,” she says.
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