{"id":4342,"date":"2021-07-16T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:36:54","slug":"maryam-sahar-interviewed-by-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2021\/maryam-sahar-interviewed-by-cbc\/","title":{"rendered":"MDS graduate student Maryam Sahar in interviews with CBC about Afghan interpreters who served with Canadian and U.S. military."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MDS graduate student Maryam Sahar in interviews with CBC about Afghan interpreters who served with Canadian and U.S. military.\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As the Taliban re-emerges in Afghanistan, former interpreter Maryam Sahar understands the fear many Afghans are experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sahar began working as an interpreter with the Canadian Armed Forces when she was just 15 years old. Two years later, she was brought to Ottawa under a special program for interpreters who supported Canadian soldiers and diplomats \u2014 alone. Following the withdrawal of the last remaining U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan, Sahar and many others like her are concerned for the safety of the families they had to leave behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-100-ottawa-morning\/clip\/15855444-former-afghan-interpreter-worries-familys-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC Ottawa Morning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/day6\/wally-funk-goes-to-space-protecting-afghan-interpreters-old-faithful-space-jam-a-new-legacy-and-more-1.6104721\/as-taliban-re-emerges-in-afghanistan-former-interpreter-calls-on-canada-to-help-us-back-in-our-time-of-need-1.6105339?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&amp;fbclid=IwAR2JKoS4H7q59T6AAs21AN67qgqy6Y-2rXXVKxBIKczkuVxegdEm33eeELk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Day 6 on CBC Listen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Taliban re-emerges in Afghanistan, former interpreter Maryam Sahar understands the fear many Afghans are experiencing. Sahar began working as an interpreter with the Canadian Armed Forces when she was just 15 years old. Two years later, she was brought to Ottawa under a special program for interpreters who supported Canadian soldiers and diplomats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4348,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}