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Nov 9, 2026
ConnorHOST
That's the national language.
ConnorHOST
And they speak Dari and they speak Persian, which they speak in Iran.
ConnorHOST
And then in the east near Pakistan, they speak Urdu, which is the Pakistani language.
ConnorHOST
So the guys I was hanging out with, they knew all those languages and they knew Arabic and English.
Darwaish ZakhilGUEST
Yeah, one is the native language Pashto.
Darwaish ZakhilGUEST
I speak Dari and I speak Urdu, which is from Pakistan and English and a little bit of Arabic as well.
David BrackettHOST
Okay.
David BrackettHOST
Wow.
Darwaish ZakhilGUEST
Well, thank you, Ned, for asking that question.
Darwaish ZakhilGUEST
I think, you know, I would say as an Afghan perspective, as someone that daily engaging with Afghans and hearing them out.
Darwaish ZakhilGUEST
So in a healthcare, especially if you're talking about Pashto in Dari, there's a lack of interpretation.
Darwaish ZakhilGUEST
You know, in many cases, when our clients go to the doctor office,
Benjamin BosterHOST
Tails are not used on fighter kites so that agility and maneuverability are not compromised.
Benjamin BosterHOST
In Afghanistan, kite flying is a popular game and is known in Dari as Gudipuran Bazi.
Benjamin BosterHOST
Some kite fighters pass their strings through a mixture of ground glass powder and glue, which is legal.
Benjamin BosterHOST
The resulting strings are very
Craig CohenHOST
The newspaper's employees and others worldwide raced around the clock to evacuate 124 people and resettle them here in Houston.
Craig CohenHOST
Their story is told in the book The Last Free Women, A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America.
Craig CohenHOST
As the subtitle suggests, the book explores the hurdles these refugees had to clear as they rebuilt their lives.
Craig CohenHOST
It focuses in particular on the stories of four young women whose education and career aspirations were suddenly interrupted.
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Diana KappSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we're so proud of them that as very young women in a vulnerable position, they're out there, you know, bravely telling this story, you know, largely for that reason.
Craig CohenHOST
That's Diana Kapp and Rebecca Blumenstein.
Craig CohenHOST
They're the co-authors of The Last Free Women, A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America.
Craig CohenHOST
They spoke with Michael Haggerty in September.
Anni CyrusHOST
And yes, if by any chance, if you're new to this channel, you just happen to come here or you only watch me twice or three times or you came across my page two days ago, I was raised by them, them being jihadists, and I know their book, their book being Quran.
Anni CyrusHOST
I speak their language, and I don't mean language as of Pashto, Dari, Urdu, Farsi, Arabic.
Anni CyrusHOST
No, their language of Islamism.
Anni CyrusHOST
And I have about 12 years of experience under my belt as far as talking to people, equipping them with not just the bad news, but tools to be able to fight back.
Alexandra ChenGUEST
because I was, you know, I said, there are plenty of people that I've trained with who are extraordinary, but I can't ask them to up and leave their lives and be on the front lines with me.
Alexandra ChenGUEST
They also don't speak Arabic, but my experience working with Afghan patients after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, and I don't speak Dari or Pashto, I know like five words in each language, made me realize that you could do this work if You trained your interpreter as well.
Alexandra ChenGUEST
And I had the most extraordinary interpreters who I trained to say, as the patient said, pause where they paused, choke where they choked, repeat what they repeated.
Alexandra ChenGUEST
So that as I was listening, even without video or with facial expressions that I could track, that I could then understand what was happening with them and what mattered.
BenHOST
Those are just the ones in Europe.
BenHOST
And then Asia, Africa, Afrikaans, Ethiopian, Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Malawi language, Dari, Farsi, Afghani, Dinka from southern Sudan, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto in Pakistan, Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, Turkmen, Turkmenistan, Thai, Tibetan.
BenHOST
Yoruba from my Nigeria, and then just one list of only languages in India.
BenHOST
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kasi, Malayalam, can't say it right, Manipuri, Marathi, Miso, Oriya, Paite, Semanaga, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.
Ben WestenHOST
Those are just the ones in Europe.
Ben WestenHOST
And then Asia, Africa, Afrikaans, Ethiopian, Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Malawi language, Dari, Farsi, Afghani, Dinka from southern Sudan, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto in Pakistan, Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, Turkmen, Turkmenistan, Thai, Tibetan.
Ben WestenHOST
Yoruba from my Nigeria, and then just one list of only languages in India.
Ben WestenHOST
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kasi, Malayalam, can't say it right, Manipuri, Marathi, Miso, Oriya, Paite, Semanaga, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.
Kevin GosztolaGUEST
I certainly have taken a stand on principle for her, but there wasn't as much of an impact or many disclosures from it.
Kevin GosztolaGUEST
But they bring up NSA whistleblower reality winner in Georgia because they were successful in lying about her, basically, that she was some Taliban sympathizer because she could speak Farsi and Pashto and Dari and that she was interested in writing about terrorism and all of this, was a talented Air Force linguist.
Kevin GosztolaGUEST
Isn't it that computers used all that against her? Yeah, they used...
Kevin GosztolaGUEST
what she was basically seen as an asset in the military for being able to do.
Kevin GosztolaGUEST
Um, I certainly have taken a stand on principle for her, but, uh, there wasn't as ma- much of an impact or many disclosures from it.
Kevin GosztolaGUEST
But they bring up NSA whistleblower Reality Winner in Georgia because they were successful in lying about her, basically, that she was some Taliban sym- sympathizer 'cause she could speak, um, Farsi and Pashto and Dari, and that she was interested in writing about terrorism and, and all of this, was a talented Air Force, uh, linguist.
Kevin GosztolaGUEST
And, uh-
Scott HortonHOST
Wasn't it prosecutors used all that against her?
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