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Zahra Joya is founder of Rukhshana Media, Afghanistan’s only news outlet staffed exclusively by female reporters named for a 19-year-old girl who was stoned to death by the Taliban. Before the U.S. ousted the Taliban in 2001, Joya dressed as a boy so she could get an education and later enrolled in law school. She has lived in exile in London since she fled the country out of fear of the Taliban’s retaliation last year. She was named one of Time Magazine’s Women of the Year in March.
Nazira Karimi is a journalist, television presenter, author, and entrepreneur from Afghanistan currently based in U.S. She reported for Afghanistan National Radio and TV, BBC, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and more until Kabul fell to the Taliban. She now owns and manages NK Media, a futuristic multimedia house for the Afghan community around the world. The Washington Post in 2001 called her “a young Barbara Walters.”