Opinion Today: An Afghan woman’s video diaries, Parler’s move and safer sex work

Abandoned by the U.S., she hurried to record her story before extremists could find her. 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It was taken in 2007 by the photographer Tomás Munita while he and I were [reporting a story](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjT-cNP0TfaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAwNy8xMi8xNC93b3JsZC9hc2lhLzE0aWh0LWtpdGVzLjQuODc1MTQzMy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjExMDE4Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTQzMTI5Jm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTcxOTUyJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgphaA1ibWF5ZyvjUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) for The Times about the post-Taliban resurgence of the Afghan tradition of kite-fighting. Banned by the extremist group, the pastime had once again become the main recreational activity of male Afghans. Over the years, I’ve seen so much of the Afghan people’s struggle and hope represented in that image, especially the determination to find happiness — and something resembling peace, however momentary — amid so much hardship. I haven’t been in Afghanistan for more than a decade, but memories of the place came surging back amid the American military withdrawal and the Taliban’s lightning-quick sweep across the country and return to power. The Opinion Video team considered ways to cover this dramatic and heartbreaking turn of events. We soon found our subject in Najlla Habibyar, a 37-year-old Afghan and U.S. green card holder. She was trapped in Kabul, hiding from the Taliban along with about 20 members of her extended family. She feared that she was on a Taliban hit list because she had worked closely with the U.S. government, and she wanted to get her story out into the world before the extremists found her. “I don’t know how long I will be able to live,” she told me by phone. “I’m feeling like this is the end.” During the next several weeks, in Zoom interviews and frequent video diaries she shot on her phone, Habibyar [documented her desperate bid to stay alive](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjT-cNP0TmaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8xMC8xMy9vcGluaW9uL2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuLXRhbGliYW4td29tZW4tZXhpbGUuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIxMTAxOCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD00MzEyOSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD03MTk1MiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYWgNYm1heWcr41IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). She also told what amounted to a deeply sad love story. As she sought to escape Afghanistan, she reckoned with what she called her “delusional love” for the country, an affection driven by her lifelong desire for a stable home but one that seemed blind to the realities of a country that might, in the end, kill her. Habibyar’s story, in many ways, describes the broader struggle of generations of Afghans to seek signs of hope — like those flashes of colorful kites in the Kabul sky — amid ceaseless political uncertainty and war. 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