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Read how ‘Seven Nights Till Dawn’ connected with readers who found inspiration in Tooran’s journey from refugee to entrepreneur and his commitment to helping others despite overwhelming obstacles.
Read how ‘Seven Nights Till Dawn’ connected with readers who found inspiration in Tooran’s journey from refugee to entrepreneur and his commitment to helping others despite overwhelming obstacles.
As a fellow refugee, though from a different country, I recognized so much of my own family’s experience in these pages. The details about the escape, the poverty in refugee camps, the struggles in America, all of it felt true in ways that sanitized accounts never capture. Tooran’s honesty about how hard it was, and still is, gave me language for things I have struggled to explain to people who have never lived through displacement.
I teach modern Middle Eastern history and assigned this book to my students. The personal narrative brings the Soviet invasion and its aftermath to life in ways textbooks cannot. My students who had no connection to Afghanistan came away with genuine understanding of what these conflicts meant for ordinary families. The seven night escape through the mountains became the part they remembered most vividly.
I picked this up not knowing anything about Afghanistan’s recent history. By the end I understood the Soviet invasion, the Mujahideen resistance, the civil wars, the Taliban, and the 2021 collapse in ways news articles never helped me grasp. Tooran explains the political complexity while keeping the focus on human impact, which made it accessible without oversimplifying.
As someone who works with refugee resettlement, I appreciated that Tooran did not pretend arriving in America solved everything. He shows the racism, the poverty, the cultural barriers, and the grinding work required to build stability. Too many people think refugees get easy assistance and quick success. This book shows the reality, which is years of struggle with few resources and constant obstacles.