Time International Edition - August 22, 2022

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DOUBLE ISSUE AUG. 22 / AUG. 29, 2022

VOL. 200, NOS. 7–8 | 2022
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The Brief Afghanistan in Preparing for the Time Off
Memory Next Pandemic
25 Women who fled Kabul a year ago A drug company organizes a global
The View build new lives abroad surveillance network to detect—
By Naina Bajekal, Amie Ferris- and move against—new strains of
Rotman, Farahnaz Forotan, COVID-19, and the inevitable new
Zahra Joya, Jill Langlois, and threats coming after
Corinne Redfern By Alice Park
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Sound It Out The Greater Good
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The nationwide push to teach Oxford philosopher William MacAskill A researcher at the
children reading through phonics, and the effort to improve as University of São
which research shows works best many lives as possible Paulo examines a
By Belinda Luscombe By Naina Bajekal blood sample
Photograph by
Gui Christ for TIME
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F R O M T H E E D I T O R
Far from home
OVER THE COURSE OF “THE LONGEST WAR”—A NAME WE WERE
already using back in 2009—TIME published more than a dozen
covers about A fghanistan and the Taliban. Perhaps the best known
was in 2010 and featured a shocking and disturbing portrait of Bibi
Aisha, a then 18-year-old whose husband—a Taliban fi ghter—had cut
off her nose and ears after she tried to escape their forced marriage.
The story that ran with that cover, written by senior correspondent
Aryn Baker, explored what might happen to Afghan women if the
U.S. were to pull out of Afghanistan.
The journeys Today of course that is no longer a hypothetical. To mark one
year since Kabul fell to the Taliban—a year in which women have
of these eight
lost many of the freedoms they had for the previous two decades—
women are
executive editor Naina Bajekal collaborated with journalists Amie
varied. All
Ferris-R otman and Zahra Joya on a special project. The powerful vi-
are stories of suals in the package were overseen by TIME’s Sangsuk Sylvia Kang,
Paul Moakley, and Katherine Pomerantz. Working with women writ-
resilience
ers and photographers around the world, and supported by a grant
from the Pulitzer Center, the team set out to illuminate the experi-
ences of women who had to leave Afghanistan, pursuing new dreams
even as they remain deeply concerned about loved ones back home.
The result is our international cover for this issue. It tells the
stories of eight Afghan women, each of whom
since last August has fl ed the Taliban to start a
new life in locations ranging from Fort Myers,
Fla., to Nice, France, to São Paulo. For Ferris-
Rotman and Joya, this project was particularly
personal. Ferris- Rotman was previously based
in Afghanistan, where she established an
organization to mentor and train Afghan women
journalists. Joya, one of TIME’s 2022 Women of
the Year, became one of the many new Afghan
refugees last August. From her home in London,
she runs Rukhshana Media, which is dedicated to
telling the stories of Afghan women. Rukhshana
Media will be publishing this project on its own
website, in English and Dari, where we hope
many of its readers will see themselves refl ected
△ in the stories.
Friends Hasina Najibi and Raihana The journeys of these eight women are varied.
Rahimi at their home in Florida in July Some are stories of hope. Some of fear. All are
stories of resilience. “What we need is not pity
and empathy,” says Masouma Tajik, a 23-year-old Rutgers University
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On the covers
Illustration by Peter
Greenwood for TIME
More Emmy nominations for TIME
TIME received five News & Documentary Emmy Award
nominations on July 28 for Paper & Glue, the
TIME Studios–MSNBC doc on the artist JR, and
Unlivable Oasis, a TIME-ProPublica doc about a
California family and climate change, which got three
nods. Watch the films at time.com/unlivable-oasis
and nbc.com/paper-glue
Photograph by Sabiha
Çimen—Magnum
Photos for TIME
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TIME’s Health editors
are seeking submissions
for the COVID Questions
advice column, which
Best new books
answers coronavirus-
to read in August
related queries like
“I’m Vaccinated,
Looking for your next
Boosted, and Had
summer read? TIME’s
COVID-19. Can I Go
Culture team highlights 12
Back to Normal Now?”
of the best books coming
Email questions to
out in August. Among
covidquestions@
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Afterlives by Nobel Prize
winner Abdulrazak Gurnah
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