In Morocco, exiled Afghan female soccer players find hope on the field
Manoozh Noori and her teammates defied Taliban restrictions to play in their first international tournament in Morocco MOROCCO: Manoozh Noori said she “wanted to die” when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. It meant she could no longer do what she loved most: play football. Noori, 22, left the country where the United Nations says authorities have implemented “gender apartheid” and was playing in a team of Afghan refugees taking part in a first-of-its-kind tournament in Morocco. “I had asked myself: ‘Do I want to live in this country with people who want to ban women from




