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Oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan

 Collection
Identifier: SR12260

Scope and Contents

This oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan was conducted by Sankar Raman on July 11, 2017. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. In this interview, Khan discusses the process of immigrating to the United States from Afghanistan in 2016. He talks about his family and early life in Afghanistan, including the death of four of his brothers from cancer, growing up in an area surrounded by the Taliban, and the experience of growing up in a war zone. He speaks about his education in Afghanistan and experiencing bullying. Khan also spends some time showing photographs to Raman. He talks about gender roles in Afghanistan. He describes witnessing two Taliban bombings, one at his school in 2012, and another that killed a friend in front of him in 2014. He talks about immigrating to the United States to continue his education. He discusses his experiences attending Benson High School in Portland, Oregon, including learning English as a second language, and his plans for the future. Khan closes the interview by talking about politics and human rights in Afghanistan, his plans for college, meeting the Afghan ambassador to the United States, and his thoughts on the political situation in the United States in 2017.

Dates

  • 2017 July 11

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and The Immigrant Story. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Biographical note

Nawid G. Khan was born in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in 2000. His father worked in the United States to provide for the family. As a child, Khan witnessed the violence of the war in Afghanistan, including the bombing of his school by the Taliban in 2012. In 2016, his father brought him to the United States to continue his education, and he settled in Portland, Oregon. He attended Benson High School and Woodrow Wilson High School in Portland, then Yale University.

Extent

41.3 Megabytes (1 online resource (3 audio files (1 hr., 29 min., 9 sec.))) : MPEG-4

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan conducted by Sankar Raman on July 11, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Khan immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan in 2016.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of The Immigrant Story, 2020 (Lib. Acc. RL2020-017).

Publication note

An article about Nawid G. Khan, "The Dawn of a New Life" by Sankar Raman, was based on this interview and published on The Immigrant Story website at https://theimmigrantstory.org/dawn/.

Creator

Title
Guide to oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan
Status
Completed
Author
Sarah Stroman
Date
2020
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Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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