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Basira Joya

Basira Joya

Afghan television news anchor

Basira Joya is an Afghan former television news anchor who fled to the United States in 2021 as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

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Early life and education

Basira Joya was born in 1998 or 1999[1] to a family who lives in Takhar Province, in North-East Afghanistan.[1] Her father worked as a police officer.[1] Basira studied economics at Kabul University.[2]

Career

Joya worked as a news anchor at the women-owned Zan TV before working at Ariana Television Network.[3] During the Taliban's 2021 rise to power in Afghanistan, she spoke to The Independent newspaper about the slow evacuation of journalists from Afghanistan by European nations and the United States.[4] The same year, she faced threats and went into hiding before fleeing to the United States, to live in Dayton, Ohio.[1]

In Ohio, Joya took employment in a factory.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "After Afghan TV fame, a new life in Ohio". BBC News. 2023-03-05. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  2. [2]
    "MEEX Afghanistan Women Channel | AP Archive". AP Archive. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  3. [3]
    Joya, Basira. "VOICES: Today I live in Dayton, but once I was a TV anchor in Afghanistan. Let's not forget the women left behind". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  4. [4]
    "روزنامه‌نگاران افغان همچنان در معرض خطر". ایندیپندنت فارسی (The Independent) (in Persian). 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
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