Khial Mohammad Sultani holds the prayer rug that is among his family’s most treasured possessions in the motel room in El Paso, Texas, where they now live. His father brought the rug from Mecca after another son was killed by the Taliban, Mr. Sultani said, and now he brought it to his new life in the United States.
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Sitting cross-legged on the floor as his wife and six children laid plates of fruit on a red cloth in front of him, Wolayat Khan Samadzoi watched through the open balcony door for the sliver of the new moon to appear in the cloudless New Mexico sky, where the sun had set beyond a desert mountain.
