rafi knew she had to leave.ahan: i was afraid because i was a female artist, and all my artwork was about women's lives. so we decided to leave afghanistan until we are able to breathe again. nick: and you boarded the plane, and the plane took off. can you tell me what you were thinking as you had to leave kabul? jahan: when i was looking at my people inside the airplane, a plane that was probably meant for 100 people, but there were more than 600 or 700 people inside, i was crying for kabul, that its people were displaced. i cried for the land where neither women nor men were valued. there was no art in that land anymore, only a dark regime that had taken over. nick: that day, she had to leave all her paintings behind. she brought only three books that immortalized her art. and this is your work right here? jahan: yes. nick: an international contemporary art catalogue. jahan: make art, not war. nick: make art, not war. a series of her paintings exhibited in germany. jahan: this was the first meeting. nick: and

other than to pray. >> today rafi is one of the lucky ones.iece and nephew, twins, lived in the states she escaped on an evacuation flight last august. just hours after a suicide bomber killed hundreds of afghans and 13 u.s. service members at a makeshift airport entrance the abbe gate. rafi knew she had to leave. >> i was afraid because i was female artist and all my artwork was about women's lives. so we decided to leave afghanistan until we are able to breathe again. nick: you boarded the plane and the plane took off. can you tell me what you were thinking as you had to leave kabul? >> when i was looking at my people inside the airplane, a plane that was probably meant for 100 people, but there were 600 or 700 people inside. i was crying for kabul, that its people were displaced. i cried for the land where neither women nor men were valued. there was no art in that land anymore. only a dark regime that had taken over. nick: that day she had to leave all her paintings behind. the brought only three books that immortalized her art. this is yo

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