TOZiza Naderi is an Afghan student who recently arrived in Italy. His story was told first in a report of Pamela Ferlin on Corriere del Veneto In the days of Kabul’s taking by the Taliban, then by a book, On this Afghan nightpublished by Piemme.
Aziza wanted to escape. In Pamela, who made her mind the risks, she replied: “If they don’t kill me, I kill myself.” So Aziza was enrolled at the University of Padua. Then a scholarship was established for her. He found himself accommodation.
In the meantime, Ferlin contacted the Italian Embassy in Tehranto anticipate the request for visa for students and procure all the necessary documents.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Vangi Gilbert).
Then he got the passport that Aziza did not (With money, even at war you get almost everything). So the plane ticket for her and for her brother, and tourist visas for Iran (an Afghan woman cannot travel alone).
“On this night Afghan” by Pamela Ferlin (Piemme).
Aziza remained in Tehran three months (from June to September 2024) to wait for the appointment in the embassy. Once the visa is released, He was able to start by plane via Istanbul towards Venice. Here he started a new lifelearning a new language, or rather two (English at university and Italian in the supermarket), a new way of eating, dressing and living.
Pamela tells: “The first days asked me to be surprised if he could really speak with people in residence, on the road, to the post office, And by “people” he meant males. If he could really go where he wanted and when he wanted. In the early days he was stunning in front of joy, to the smiles he always met, to the climate. Above all he is learning freedomwhich can be beautiful but also fear. He suffers from nostalgia and, at the same time, rejoices for his new beautiful life made of new friends to whom he can turn freely and who can touch, of new discoveries, and above all of the discovery of himself ».
It is a useful story to us too, To remind us of how beautiful and important our freedom isthat we don’t even notice that we have.
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