by Natasha Anderson at The Daily Mail
The daughter of exiled Afghan president Ashraf Ghani is living a luxurious lifestyle in New York City, while her father has been given asylum in Dubai on ‘humanitarian grounds’ after fleeing Afghanistan in a helicopter that was allegedly filled with $169million in cash.
Mariam Ghani, 42, lives in a loft in a luxury co-op in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, the New York Post reported.
The visual artist and filmmaker, who was born and raised in America, is said to practice a bohemian lifestyle much different than that of women in Afghanistan.
When interviewed in 2015, the New York Times described her loft as a ‘map to her layered identity,’ featuring floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with books, embroidered pillows made by a collective in Aleppo, Syria, and a Turkmenistan rug gifted to her by her father. Her refrigerator was decorated with magnets touting motivational sayings and her kitchen shelves lined with green tomatoes she pickled herself.
‘I’m a Brooklyn cliché,’ she said at the time, commenting on her way of living…
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