Muskah Sadaat put on lipstick without telling her mother, convinced she needed it on her first day of first grade. In a few minutes, her mother would scrub it off, scolding in her in Dari, their native dialect in Afghanistan. Her mother do
Muskah pulls back her hair after getting home from school before going to play in the park in their apartment complex. She has made instant friends with a young girl down the hall who has just moved from India. Her parents don't know exactly how the
Yalda Sadaat (R) is the oldest of the four siblings, before Muskah, Omran (L), and infant Ekraam. Her parents, Abdulbari and Zeya Gul, guess that Yalda is nine years old, but they are not certain. Omran is four.
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Muskah waves goodbye as she boards the bus toward her school. Zeya Gul spends an hour sitting outside each morning, ushering her three school-age children onto three separate buses. They all attend different schools, at different locations, with dif
Muskah presses a flower to her lips as she waits for the light to change on her way to Costco with her family. When they get there, the family will be unable to shop because Abudulbari cannot understand the the application form for a Costco card.
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The Sadaat family gets ready to have a formal portrait taken outside of their home. The synagogue that sponsors them is eager for a photo-op to show the rest of their congregation the work they've done, in hopes they can get more funding for the fam
Muskah Sadaat put on lipstick without telling her mother, convinced she needed it on her first day of first grade. In a few minutes, her mother would scrub it off, scolding in her in Dari, their native dialect in Afghanistan. Her mother do
Muskah Sadaat put on lipstick without telling her mother, convinced she needed it on her first day of first grade. In a few minutes, her mother would scrub it off, scolding in her in Dari, their native dialect in Afghanistan. Her mother doesn't know much English, so Muskah and her older sister translate all of the first-day letters from the school in Silver Spring, Maryland. 
Muskah pulls back her hair after getting home from school before going to play in the park in their apartment complex. She has made instant friends with a young girl down the hall who has just moved from India. Her parents don't know exactly how the
Muskah pulls back her hair after getting home from school before going to play in the park in their apartment complex. She has made instant friends with a young girl down the hall who has just moved from India. Her parents don't know exactly how they can socialize their four children -- America is very different than Afghanistan. They don't understand the papers slipped underneath their door that advertise a Halloween party for the kids in their building.
Yalda Sadaat (R) is the oldest of the four siblings, before Muskah, Omran (L), and infant Ekraam. Her parents, Abdulbari and Zeya Gul, guess that Yalda is nine years old, but they are not certain. Omran is four.
Yalda Sadaat (R) is the oldest of the four siblings, before Muskah, Omran (L), and infant Ekraam. Her parents, Abdulbari and Zeya Gul, guess that Yalda is nine years old, but they are not certain. Omran is four.
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Muskah waves goodbye as she boards the bus toward her school. Zeya Gul spends an hour sitting outside each morning, ushering her three school-age children onto three separate buses. They all attend different schools, at different locations, with dif
Muskah waves goodbye as she boards the bus toward her school. Zeya Gul spends an hour sitting outside each morning, ushering her three school-age children onto three separate buses. They all attend different schools, at different locations, with different schedules, permission forms, and parent-teacher conferences -- all in English -- that she must navigate. 
Muskah presses a flower to her lips as she waits for the light to change on her way to Costco with her family. When they get there, the family will be unable to shop because Abudulbari cannot understand the the application form for a Costco card.
Muskah presses a flower to her lips as she waits for the light to change on her way to Costco with her family. When they get there, the family will be unable to shop because Abudulbari cannot understand the the application form for a Costco card.
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The Sadaat family gets ready to have a formal portrait taken outside of their home. The synagogue that sponsors them is eager for a photo-op to show the rest of their congregation the work they've done, in hopes they can get more funding for the fam
The Sadaat family gets ready to have a formal portrait taken outside of their home. The synagogue that sponsors them is eager for a photo-op to show the rest of their congregation the work they've done, in hopes they can get more funding for the family. The synagogue has agreed to sponsor the family for 12-months, but realistically they say that is not long enough. They would prefer two years, at the least, so they can help the Sadaat family truly get on their feet.
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