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- Shabnam Nasimi shares that her parents left Afghanistan at ages 19 and 24 to study in the former Soviet Union.
- Shabnam Nasimi's late grandfather taught himself to read and write by studying Persian literature and wrote letters for others.
- Shabnam Nasimi was born in Azerbaijan, attended school briefly in Ukraine, and arrived in the UK in 1999.
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Hi, if you're new here, let me properly introduce myself. My parents left Afghanistan at the age of 19 and 24 to study in the former Soviet Union, >> >> Moscow, St. Petersburg, Odessa. They did it because in my family, education was always the thing worth crossing a continent for. And the person I look up to most is my late grandfather, who never went to school a day in his life.
But he taught himself to read and write by studying Persian literature, Hafez, Saadi, Ferdowsi. And he used it. He would sit outside the local government office in Afghanistan and write letters for people who couldn't read or write themselves, so that their voices could also be heard. And fun fact, I was born in Azerbaijan. I went to school briefly in Ukraine, and we arrived in the UK in 1999. My heritage comes from a land
whose culture, language, histories, identity has been erased by people who benefit from us forgetting who we are. And that's why I started creating content to educate not only my own community, but everyone else about the stories that we were never meant to be told. So welcome, and I'm so glad that you were able to find me. If you've made it this far in this video, comment one bit of history that you really want me to cover.