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Oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan [Sound Recording 01]
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- 2017-07-11 (Creation)
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MPEG-4; 01:11:27
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Nawid G. Khan was born in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in 2000. His father worked in the United States to provide for the family. As a child, Khan witnessed the violence of the war in Afghanistan, including the bombing of his school by the Taliban in 2012. In 2016, his father brought him to the United States to continue his education, and he settled in Portland, Oregon. He attended Benson High School and Woodrow Wilson High School in Portland, then Yale University.
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Session 1, Part 1. This oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan was conducted by Sankar Raman on July 11, 2017. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. In this part of this interview, Khan discusses the process of immigrating to the United States from Afghanistan in 2016. He talks about his family and early life in Afghanistan, including the death of four of his brothers from cancer, growing up in an area surrounded by the Taliban, and the experience of growing up in a war zone. He speaks about his education in Afghanistan and experiencing bullying. Khan also spends some time showing photographs to Raman. He talks about gender roles in Afghanistan. He describes witnessing two Taliban bombings, one at his school in 2012, and another that killed a friend in front of him in 2014. He talks about immigrating to the United States to continue his education. He discusses his experiences attending Benson High School in Portland, Oregon, including learning English as a second language, and his plans for the future.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and The Immigrant Story. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/.
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- eng
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- Raman, Sankar (Contributor)