Alako was a woman raised in what my colleague john was calling the new afghanistan. She most recently worked as director general for macro fisco policy in coble with the i m f and the world bank. Von, you know, after happened our last few weeks, alacosia is thankful that she and her family made it here. This week, sitting by this pool, she watched videos of women demonstrating across her country.
Twenty years after the Twin Towers were brought down, FT Weekend podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos explores where 9/11 sits in our memories. The FT’s New York correspondent Joshua Chaffin introduces us to billionaire developer Larry Silverstein, who bought the World Trade Center in July of 2001 and had to rebuild on the site of a tragedy. How do spaces change in meaning over time? The FT’s former Kabul correspondent Jon Boone introduces us to the “New Afghanistan” generation, what they were promised, and what was lost. Plus: we hear from a woman who fled the Taliban and is now waiting in limbo in Albania, suddenly a refugee.
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Links from the episode:
Josh Chaffin on Larry Silverstein: https://www.ft.com/content/f38a5067-58d1-491f-902f-568abcdd8a84#comments-anchor
Jon Boone on The Last Days of the New Afghanistan: https://www.ft.com/content/4a276093-cf85-4da7-9093-6af6443bb53a
Sound design and mixing is by Breen Turner, with original music by Metaphor Music.
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