'I disguised myself as a boy so I could go to school'
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Zahra Joya, now 33 and a bye-fellow at Cambridge University, disguised herself as a boy to attend school in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan when girls were banned from education, and has since fled to the UK where she now runs a news agency highlighting the oppression of women.
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