Nuskin arbabzadah biography of rory

Nushin Arbabzadah didn’t know she was looking at dead bodies the first time she saw them.

She and her 7-year-old classmates lined up in front of the classroom and stared as men carried teenage girls on stretchers to the hospital next door.

She thought the girls were sleeping, until one of her classmates started to cry.

Arbabzadah,now a communication studies lecturer at UCLA, grew up in the war zone of Soviet-occupied Kabul, Afghanistan, and attended the first all-girls school in the country.

The Soviet Union established a pro-Soviet regime in 1979 and occupied the area for nine years, according to The Atlantic. The conflict claimed approximately one million lives.

That day, rebels known as the mujahideen poisoned a school well after expressing hostility toward the syllabus.

They threatened the school regularly because of Soviet propaganda in the curriculum.

At least 10 teenage girls died that day. Arbabza