When Siawash reads the once-unsent letters that his mom wrote to him while she was living in exile and he was a child in Afghanistan, he isn’t filled with sorrow.
“Every time I read the letters my mom wrote to me, I see that history repeats and repeats,” Siawash said before a crowd in Yale’s Dwight Hall. “I have hope for the future.”
The two were featured in the latest installment of Lighting the Future, a speaker series hosted by New Haven-based nonprofit Elena’s Light. A crowd of 40 people gathered on Dec. 5 to hear from two women who have seen firsthand the implications of two pivotal moments in recent history — the onset of the war in Ukraine, and the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
