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Nazira Babori moves around The 1951 Coffee Shop with ease: mixing, steaming, and grinding coffee like a pro -- but the truth is, she’s new to this, and not so long ago, she was in a very different place.

“My last job was with the United Nations as a communication consultant in the Kabul office,” she says.

Before that, she worked as a journalist in Afghanistan, her home country. There, she had it all.

“I had home, family, career, everything, but I was not safe.”