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Shabana spoke in New York on 10 Oct. on the eve of the International Day of the Girl for 10×10's global campaign to educate girls...
"Behind most [Afghan girls] who succeed is a father who recognizes … that her success is his success.”
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The Huffington Post
03/06/2013
By Clifford Potter
"Development efforts around the world nobly aim to make change... Yet very few efforts match the social, economic and political impact of educating girls.
... Shabana co-founded -- at just 22 years old -- [SOLA] to educate girls in the post-Taliban era. A sequel to Girl Rising in the making?"

2 Jan 2013
YES Alumuna Shabana Basij-Rasikh of Afghanistan selected to speak during TABS Global Symposium, YES program website, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs. U.S. Department of State.


14-20 Dec 2012
SOLA Directors Shabana and Matiullah on the importance of empowering fathers and daughters in the New York Times International Weekly


1 Dec 2012
SOLA's Shabana speaks at TedX Women Event in Washington, D.C.


30 Oct 2012
Afghan student at NMH - Fatima in the Greenfield Recorder


16 Oct 2012
Education is the biggest investment in your life - SOLA in the Bucks County Courier Times


14 Oct 2012
SOLA's Shabana cited in the Los Angeles Times on Malala Yousafzai, the global symbol of girls education


11 Oct 2012
SOLA's Managing Director on CNN International with Fionnuala Sweeney

11 Oct 2012
SOLA's Managing Director talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour

11 Oct 2012
SOLA's Shabana about the importance of girls education and the brutal attack on a Pakistani teenage education advocate on U.S. national radio morning news

17 Aug. 2012
Asian University for Women hosts Women in Public Service Summer Institute


14 Apr. 2012
SOLA students participate in demonstration for women's rights (The Guardian)

8 Apri.2012

SOLA board member gives TedX Talk at Yale University (YouTube)

26 Feb. 2012

Learning at West Lavington to live her life (Gazette & Herald)


25 Jan. 2012

SOLA Head of School gives TedX Talk at Middlebury University (YouTube)

17 Nov.2011

Struck by a rocket that killed his brother, boy brings out the best in man (Times & Telegraph [India])


1 Sep.2010

SOLA student selected as Top 10 College Women of 2011 (Glamour Magazine) 


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