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Three years after the Taliban swept to power, as many as 8 out of 10 female journalists in Afghanistan are no longer in their jobs.
But some have resisted.
What is the life of female journalists like now?
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It took me two years.
Failures, failures, failures.
It was not working.
I had no success.
And I had a dream.
In January 2004, I found a way.
And suddenly I could see a kind of underground galaxy of new.
A new sky.
A new sky underground.
You dreamt.
And I found it.
Wow.
I found it.
After two years of failures, I found it.