A journalistic work told in the first person by one of thelast journalists to enter Afghanistan to live - before,during and after the uncontrolled advance of the Talibanmilitias during the distressing days of August 2021.This episode, which is part of the television seriesSearching for God, immerses us into one of the greatesttragedies in modern history and confronts us with thefears and horrors of women, artists, athletes and ethnicminorities like the Sikhs, Hazaras and Shiite Muslims whofear that the so-called Students of Islam, the Taliban,will reimpose Sharia or Islamic law to control all aspectsof life in society. Witness how in just a few days theTaliban, almost unopposed militarily, take over powerin Afghanistan by force of arms. We see the desperationof hundreds of thousands of Kabul’s inhabitants tryingto escape the coming hell. Inmidst of one of the mostcatastrophic evacuations in modern history, Jorge Saidbecomes one of the last or perhaps the last Westernjournalist to leave Kabul. The epic escape, on the veryday of the suicide bombings at the city’s airport andhow he manages to rescue young Afghan women, andbreakout from the Taliban terror, is narrated in thisextraordinary journalistic work by a witness of modernhistory.
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