The Kitchen Sisters Present

193 - Bowling With Taban: Afghan Women Refugees in America

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Every year around this time, The Kitchen Sisters host Bowling With Grace, our big annual community party at Mission Bowling Club in San Francisco where we honor life-long bowling savant, Amazing Grace Mulloy. Grace, who turns 99 this year, is in two senior bowling leagues and averages about 100 a game. Grace moves through the lanes sipping her signature Scotch and Soda with a green olive, sharing her bowling tips and wisdom with the crowd.   Recently a listener sent us an article from the DCist by writer and photographer Valerie Plesch about an astonishing group of young Afghan women journalists, musicians and activists who fled their country in fear for their lives when the Taliban took over their nation — a group now living in the DC area. Two paragraphs into the article, we knew had to record these women’s stories, especially when we read that one of the journalists, 26-year-old Taban Ibraz, had a weekly national television show, Let's Bowl, where she interviewed politicians and people of note while bowl