Rebecca Blumenstein and Diana Kapp on "The Last Free Women"

On August 15, 2021, fighters entered Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, and the US-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan collapsed. Over 100,000 people were evacuated, and among them, locals who had worked for the New York Times. In their book, The Last Free Women, A Daring Escape from Afghanistan. Journalists Rebecca Blumenstein and Diana Capp detailed the New York Times' efforts to get them out and the lives of four of the women after they arrived in the United States. 
 Blumenstein and Capp came to KQED Studios on August 3, 2026 to talk about the book with journalist Deepa Fernandez.