Since she escaped from Afghanistan to Wisconsin more than three years ago, Zahra Hakimi has experienced a brightness to her life that would have been stripped from her had she stayed in her native country.
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Zahra Hakimi escaped Afghanistan in August 2021 and found temporary refuge at Fort McCoy, a military base in western Wisconsin that housed 13,000 Afghan refugees. Now, Hakimi is studying computer science at Arizona State University.
GRACE TREJO, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
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Zahra Hakimi snowboards during the Pakistan International Snowboarding Open Cup in January 2021 before she came to the U.S. After leaving Fort McCoy, she was able to snowboard briefly in Utah while a family hosted her there, but she left the state to focus on her college education.
ZAHRA HAKIMI
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A 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student was among a group of about 150 students from the Asian American University for Women who made a treacherous escape from Afghanistan in August 2021. She says she wishes she could forget the sleepless nights she experienced while trying to get out through the Kabul airport, the sounds of the bombs and guns that went off around her, and the voices of the Taliban men who threatened her classmates, but "you always remember."
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Zahra Hakimi painted this piece titled "Rise from Ashes," depicting one woman with two different life paths. On one side, the woman is surrounded by shadow, her face covered with a burqa. On the other side, "there's happiness, there's brightness and there's a Phoenix," Hakimi explains. Hakimi's art portfolio can be found online at go.madison.com/hakimi
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Zahra Hakimi escaped Afghanistan in August 2021 and stayed temporarily at Wisconsin's Fort McCoy military base before resettling to Arizona. She is a snowboarder, runner, painter, human rights advocate and now a student at Arizona State University. She is pictured here on campus outside of Old Main, 1151 South Forest Avenue, Tempe, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2024.
GRACE TREJO, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
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Fatema D. Ahmadi answers questions during a panel discussion about the status of women's rights in Afghanistan at American University Washington College of Law in Washington D.C., in October.
FATEMA D. AHMADI
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Zahra Hakimi holds up a medal for a marathon she ran to support Free to Run in Camarillo, California in 2024. She has also run marathons for Free to Run in Arizona and New York.
ZAHRA HAKIMI
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