My first conversation with Niloofar Rahmani, Afghanistan's first female pilot, was one of the most remarkable and memorable interviews I've done in a decade of radio. I hope you'll listen to that as well as to this riveting story of a brave Afghan woman trying to help her parents get out of Afghanistan before the Taliban could find and kill them.
Here's Niloofar's book: OPEN SKIES MY LIFE AS AFGHANISTAN’S FIRST FEMALE PILOT