The memoir “Defiant Dreams” tells the story of a young Afghan woman who grew up in Kandahar and studied English and math secretly. She became a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University in Boston.
Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks to the co-authors of the book, Malaina Kapoor and Sola Mahfouz, the subject of the memoir.
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