{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"\u201cEvery day my children can go to school, I laugh, because my heart is full of joy,\u201d with SAR scholar Zahra Hakimi","description":"In Herat, Afghanistan, Zahra Hakimi was a faculty member, midwife, family planning trainer, and women\u2019s reproductive healthcare provider. She often worked in secret and at personal risk to provide treatment to survivors of sexual assault.  Within a week of taking control of her city, the Taliban raided Hakimi\u2019s home. They condemned her work as \u201canti-Islam.\u201d They threatened her and her husband, and demanded her teenage daughter for a forced marriage. She had no choice: She had to flee.   On Free to Think Hakimi shares her incredible journey, including several attempts to escape Afghanistan, first through Iran, then the United States, and ultimately Canada.  With SAR\u2019s help, she is now a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research on Health and Nursing at the University of Ottawa. Since December 2022, the Taliban has banned higher education for women in Afghanistan. Now in Canada, however, Hakimi\u2019s daughter hopes to become a dentist. \u201cEvery day that my children can go to school\u201d Hakimi says, \u201cmy heart is full of joy." ","author_name":"Free to Think Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/scholarsatrisk.org\/podcast","html":"