Defiant Dreams

The Author: Sola Mahfouz was born in Afghanistan. Forced by the Taliban to leave school at age 11, she taught herself English through dictionaries and discarded magazines and learned maths and physics from educational websites. Sola eventually made it to the United States, where she studied physics on a full scholarship at Arizona State University. Sola is currently a quantum computing researcher in Boston, Massachusetts with the Tufts University Quantum Information Group