Hundreds of thousands of people fled Afghanistan when the Taliban took control amid the withdrawal of US forces last August.
Mustafa Rezazadah escaped Kabul under gunfire, arriving Liverpool with a full scholarship for a masters in communications and media at the University of Liverpool, which he'd previously deferred. Before leaving Afghanistan, the media worker was organising an advocacy campaign after watching one Afghan province after another fall to the Taliban.
One year later, we met at the same branch of Starbucks on Mount Pleasant where he first spoke to the ECHO in December. Now he's almost finished his dissertation - on US President Joe Biden's communications strategy on the withdrawal from Afghanistan - while working part-time as a marketing and communications manager for a company running workshops and training on equality, diversity and inclusion.
