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I Sleep with Silence

From chained dreams, a daughters silent scream asserts fierce agency, navigating profound grief to breathe resilience into a wounded lands margins.

Noshin Ahmadyar

Noshin Ahmadyar is fifteen years old and was forced to leave school after completing the ninth grade when the Taliban banned schooling for girls over sixth grade. Her greatest passion is to study so she can serve her country and help her people. Education is the path she believes will let her give back to the community she loves.Noshin’s dreams for the future include becoming a surgeon. Alongside medicine, she has a deep love for writing, and she hopes to combine – to heal people in a hospital and heal hearts with her words.Writing, she says, means everything to her. It’s how she expresses her feelings. Through writing she finds freedom and calmness. “Even when I cannot speak my thoughts to someone, I pour them onto paper, and the page understands everything.”

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