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Ali Rasooli, left, and Kaihan Noorzad take their lunch break together, eating a meal Noorzad鈥檚 mom made for them Dec. 23, 2025. Noorzad and Rasooli first met when they were teenagers in a refugee camp in Qatar after their families fled Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. Noorzad offered Rasooli a job in the shop and is training him to do auto body work.
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Kaihan Noorzad, 22, makes repairs to an SUV on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in the auto body repair shop he opened in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad said business is going great and that he鈥檚 already looking to expand into a bigger space to do more work.
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Ali Rasooli, left, and Kaihan Noorzad reattach a bumper to the front of a car on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in the autobody repair shop Noorzad opened in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad and Rasooli first met when they were teenagers in a refugee camp in Qatar after their families fled Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. Noorzad offered Rasooli a job in the shop and is training him to do auto body work.
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Ali Rasooli, left, and Kaihan Noorzad work in Noorzad鈥檚 autobody repair shop on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. Noorzad opened the business in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad and Rasooli first met when they were teenagers in a refugee camp in Qatar after their families fled Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. Noorzad offered Rasooli a job in the shop and is training him to do auto body work.
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Kaihan Noorzad, 22, rolls his head to release tension in his neck as he takes a break from fixing vehicles on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. Noorzad opened JK Auto Body in South 最新杏吧原创 about six month ago. Noorzad says he works seven days a week, often putting in 10 or more hours per day.
Irshad Khan, from Afghanistan, holds out his arm as American Red Cross collection tech Charlie Nicholson looks for a good vein to use for blood donation at The International Institute in 最新杏吧原创 on Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. Khan was at the blood drive, which was organized by the U.S.-Afghan Chamber of Commerce and members of the local Afghan community, in part to show solidarity with Americans after the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., last month. Khan, who is from Kabul, came to the United States in 2021.
Ali Rasooli, left, and Kaihan Noorzad reattach a bumper to the front of a car on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in the autobody repair shop Noorzad opened in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad and Rasooli first met when they were teenagers in a refugee camp in Qatar after their families fled Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. Noorzad offered Rasooli a job in the shop and is training him to do auto body work.
Kaihan Noorzad, 22, makes repairs to a car bumper on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in the auto body repair shop he opened in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad said business is going great and that he鈥檚 already looking to expand into a bigger space to do more work.
Ali Rasooli, left, and Kaihan Noorzad take their lunch break together, eating a meal Noorzad鈥檚 mom made for them Dec. 23, 2025. Noorzad and Rasooli first met when they were teenagers in a refugee camp in Qatar after their families fled Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. Noorzad offered Rasooli a job in the shop and is training him to do auto body work.
Ali Rasooli, front, and Kaihan Noorzad, behind, work on repairing vehicles on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in the auto body repair shop Noorzad opened in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad and Rasooli first met when they were teenagers in a refugee camp in Qatar after their families fled Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. Noorzad offered Rasooli a job in the shop and is training him to do auto body work.
Ali Rasooli, left, and Kaihan Noorzad work in Noorzad鈥檚 autobody repair shop on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. Noorzad opened the business in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad and Rasooli first met when they were teenagers in a refugee camp in Qatar after their families fled Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. Noorzad offered Rasooli a job in the shop and is training him to do auto body work.
Kaihan Noorzad, 22, makes repairs to an SUV on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, in the auto body repair shop he opened in South 最新杏吧原创 about six months ago. Noorzad said business is going great and that he鈥檚 already looking to expand into a bigger space to do more work.
