In the fifteenth episode of the “Observing Fullerton” podcast, host Urooj Naveed interviews Ghezal Gulmina Purmul, an Afghanistan refugee, former scientist, and a mother. She was born in 1976 in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, where she migrated to Germany, North Carolina, San Diego, and finally Fullerton. We ask her what her refugee experience was, the political climate of her childhood/what she remembers, and what the difference in being a refugee today versus what she went through.

According to www.unrefugees.org, an estimated 318,500 Afghans were newly displaced inside the country by the middle of 2021, 23 million are experiencing acute food insecurity, 8.4 million people are facing emergency level food insecurity, and one million children are at risk from severe malnou ...