we have a wonderful education system thanks to queen soraya. she insisted that they should study education. they wanted to become doctors, engineers, builders, lawyers they had to study. they came back, they had masters, they were the professors in the universities, and they did a great job educating generations of afghanistan. it takes just one woman. i think afghan women, when they put their mind to it, they are really quite formidable. nina: you were raised as a lebanese christian. in a pretty illustrious family -- talk about what your father did. rula ghani: my father had a scholarship and studied in lebanon -- in france. i am french educated, by the way. when he came back, he proceeded to really put together the agriculture of the country. he introduced varieties of fruit, new varieties of the vegetable. he introduced fertilizers insecticides, pesticides. invest a little -- eventually he got into treatment for food industries. he was quite a pioneer. he was approached to become head of the fao, but my mother said no i am not leaving lebano