{"id":3966,"date":"2022-02-10T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2022-02-11T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T00:36:11","slug":"afghanistan-as-a-land-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/afghanistan-as-a-land-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan as a &#8220;land of dreams&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I interviewed Madiha Zahir, a Florida lawyer whose family is from Afghanistan. It was fascinating to hear her story. Interview excerpts are below:<\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t realize that Afghans, they come from a very destructive and &#8230; difficult history. It&#8217;s just been a point of conflict just because of its geographic location. So there&#8217;s always been fighting over conquering Afghanistan. So unfortunately, for generations, we&#8217;ve had to face that.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3966 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.11-PM.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.11-PM-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.11-PM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.11-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.11-PM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.11-PM-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.11-PM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.25-PM.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.25-PM-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.25-PM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.25-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.25-PM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.25-PM-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.55.25-PM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.56.06-PM.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.56.06-PM-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.56.06-PM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.56.06-PM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.56.06-PM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.56.06-PM-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-10-at-6.56.06-PM.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m here because of the generations before me and what I was taught through them. It wasn&#8217;t as a result of being in America that I decided to pursue law. So I think that&#8217;s the most important for me, is for people not to assume this like thing about, &#8216;Oh, these people are savages. Oh, they can&#8217;t sit at a dinner table with like a fork and a knife and that kind of stuff, you know,&#8217; and I think it&#8217;s important to put that in there that I&#8217;m very much connected to my culture while also being able to assimilate in American society.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Afghanistan as a &quot;land of dreams&quot;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7-3XJuCuyQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The thing that we have that causes the greatest amount of conflict is the internal divide. So there&#8217;s a lot of ethnic groups in Afghanistan and there&#8217;s just so much, there&#8217;s an amount of division between those groups that we can never really come together. But throughout history, you can see when things get really rough &#8230; people will put aside their differences. So it&#8217;s against the third enemy that Afghans tend to come together. They&#8217;ll fight forever amongst themselves. But when a third party comes in and they&#8217;re trying to invade the country, they do know how to get together and resist.<\/p>\n<p>And I know that they call it the &#8220;graveyard of empires.&#8221; And I don&#8217;t know how, how I feel about that title necessarily. Because although no one has been able to technically conquer Afghanistan, putting that tag of the graveyard of empires is not really fair because it&#8217;s also a land of dreams for so many people.<\/p>\n<p>What about all those people that are collateral damage? The land may not be conquered, but so many people still lose their lives. And I think that the resistance is&#8230; it&#8217;s unimaginable how they continue to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I interviewed Madiha Zahir, a Florida lawyer whose family is from Afghanistan. It was fascinating to hear her story. Interview excerpts are below: People don&#8217;t realize that Afghans, they come from a very destructive and &#8230; difficult history. 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