24 Nov NYT: Roya Mahboob Seeks New Ways to Educate Afghan Girls Under Taliban Rule

The entrepreneur Roya Mahboob is building off-line apps, underground networks and a global robotics team to educate Afghan girls unable to attend school. Ms. Mahboob, 37, is now redoubling her efforts from abroad. She has reassembled the Afghan Dreamers, the all-girls robotics team she helped create in 2017, expanding it to include young Afghan women now living in Canada, Sweden, Italy and the United States. Several current members still reside in Afghanistan and participate remotely, using WhatsApp and Zoom, but were unable to travel in October to their most recent competition, the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in Panama City, Panama. Ms. Mahboob’s work with the Afghan Dreamers is the subject of “Rule Breakers,” a narrative film released earlier this year that she executive produced.