With hundreds of Afghans rushing the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport desperate to flee the return of the Taliban, a young Afghan woman stood in limbo between two worlds.
In one world, Massouma Tajik would board a flight to a country she did not know, destined to become a refugee. In another, she would stay in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, forced to wipe out the last 20 years of all that she had built and achieved.





