In July, 2001, Zarmina Faqeer, a sixteen-year-old Afghan displaced person residing in the Pakistani bordertown of Peshawar, discovered that the BBC radio drama "New House, New Life" was looking for an entertainer for one of its lead jobs. Faqeer, who was smaller and rough, cared hardly at all about popularity. "There wasn't really any need to focus on the style," she told me as of late. "It was the compensation." Her family had escaped Afghanistan by walking in 1985, when she was a half year old, during the Soviet occupation; her dad, a wheat rancher, conveyed her over the blanketed Hindu Kush mountains to wellbeing. He looking for employment in Peshawar as a safety officer, and his better half had five additional youngsters. He passed on in 1995, and the family moved into a solitary room in the kids' school. Presently, after six years, Faqeer had found a new line of work as a center teacher to help her family, procuring around five dollars every ...