As the daughter of Afghan refugees who fled their war-ravaged homeland, writer and journalist Atia Abawi would sit with her parents for hours by the television at home in the United States, anxiously scanning the news channels for reports of home.
“That was probably the reason I became a journalist. I grew up watching the news,” the 34-year-old says at an interview in Singapore in May.
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