BirthAugust 91992

Farahnaz Forotan

Farahnaz Forotan, Afghan journalist

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Sunday, August 9 199234 years ago
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Era
20th century · 1990s
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Farahnaz Forotan

At a glance

Born 1992-08-09.

Known as: journalist, television presenter, and activist. Citizenship: Afghanistan.

Listed as: human.

Who they were

Farahnaz Forotan is an Afghan journalist and women's rights activist. She moved to Iran together with her family during the Mujahideen regime. Farahnaz returned to Afghanistan in 2001, but took refuge in France in 2020 after being included on a Taliban's target list.

Early life

Early life In 1996, when Farahnaz was three and the Taliban arrived in her home town, Kabul , she and her family migrated to Iran due to the civil war in Afghanistan . [ 1 ] Farahnaz and her sisters were denied an education by the authorities due to their refugee status. [ 2 ] She was eventually able to continue school from grades one through four, in a private Afghan school with very limited resources. At first, students sat on the floor because there were no tables or chairs. [ 3 ]

Path and career

Career Farahnaz Forotan worked at three of the main television broadcasting stations in Afghanistan between 2012 and 2020, [ 1 ] including Ariana Television Network . [ 2 ] She has hosted major talk shows including Purso Pal for TOLOnews and Goft-i Go-i Wehza (Special talk) and the weekly program Kabul Debate for 1TV . [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Farahnaz has traveled throughout the country and abroad to report on Afghanistan -related stories,

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Farahnaz Forotan appears on our August 9 calendar for 1992 as a birth entry.

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