Maryam Ghani … life in Brooklyn between a loft and the art of the daughter of the former Afghan president – Corriere.it

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NEW YORK – While the Taliban captured Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani left AfghanistanHis two sons, Maryam and Tariq, who live in the United States, refused to answer questions from American journalists about them 169 million dollars will be taken by the father With four cars and a helicopter, according to the Russian embassy in Kabul – an accusation he has already described as a lie. journalists New York Post
They went to knock In the home of Mariam, 43, artist and director Their work has been shown at the Guggenheim, MOMA and Tate Modern, and their films have been shown at the Berlinale.

The daughter of the former president Lives in a luxurious loft in Clinton Hill, BrooklynAnd, in a 2015 interview in her hipster apartment, she explained that her lifestyle reflects every Brooklyn cliché. These days, Maryam Ghani has expressed herself on Instagram, describing herself with anger and fear for my family, friends and colleagues left behind in Afghanistan and encouraging American citizens to do so.
To put pressure on politicians Speeding up the issuance of visas for those seeking to flee the country. He also thanked all those who showed their solidarity and advised them how to donate and to whom, if they wished refugee assistancerefugees and volunteers.

Mary has a younger brother, Tariq, 39, is a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis He cooperated with important American think tanks such as the Brookings Institution and the International Crisis Group. According to one of his personal files published by the American network Sea Span
It could have been Foreign policy advisor to the former Democratic nominee About the White House and current Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. His wife Elizabeth Pearson, according to the newspaper, is working with Elizabeth Warren, another former candidate for the Democratic nomination and later won by Joe Biden in the last election of 2020. Maryam and Tariq were born in America He was mostly raised in Maryland

And His mother, former First Lady Rola Ghani, is from Lebanon.

While his father was working in the Afghan government from 2002 onwards, His children studied at prestigious American universities, which is at New York University, and at Stanford and Berkeley. After fleeing Kabul, Ashraf Ghani received political asylum on humanitarian grounds in the United Arab Emirates, but His brother Heshmat is still in Afghanistan, the businessman interviewed before Al Jazeera in the capital. According to the Qatar News Network, Heshmat not only stated that he accepted the Taliban takeover of the country as a necessity in light of the withdrawal of foreign forces, but
It is also trying to encourage investors and former officials Not leaving the countryCalling for the formation of an inclusive government.