Thanksgiving After Fleeing the Taliban
The Afghan journalist Bushra Seddique on America, gratitude, and fried turkey
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In August of last year, the Afghan journalist Bushra Seddique, now a 23-year-old editorial fellow at The Atlantic, fled Kabul, smuggling her laptop past the Taliban and leaving members of her family behind. I called Bushra, now living in the Washington D.C., area, to talk about her first Thanksgiving at home in the U.S.
But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
