‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage
Child marriage is not new to south Asia. While the practice across the region had been declining, however, the Taliban takeover has reversed that trend in Afghanistan, and turned it into outright regression. Shabnam*, a…
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Reports
The EU hosts the Taliban while refugees promised protection are left behind
Munira, a 26-year-old transgender woman, has been living in a Pakistani shelter for LGBTQ+ people since 2023. She says that Germany rejected her asylum case without giving a credible reason…
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Afghan women: The largest imprisoned population in the world
This year marks the fourth International Women’s Day in which the Taliban have imprisoned Afghan women and girls inside their…
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Ahmad Zahir and the Afghanistan that might have been
One of my great fortunes was being introduced early with the music of Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s. That encounter made me believe that progress and transformation were possible…
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Interviews
Living in constant fear: an interview with Kohzad, an LGBTQI+ person in Afghanistan
For many, particularly queer people, women, and girls, living in Afghanistan under Taliban rule is bound up with fear, denial, and silence. It is a place where revealing one’s identity…
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Narrative
‘We had nowhere to go’: an Afghan woman journalist’s account of war in Iran
I live in Bandar Abbas, in Iran’s Hormozgan province, and was working the day shift from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. when the United States began its war with Iran.…
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Arts & Culture
A life as wide as the courtyard: A review of ‘Let Me Write to You’
The story Let Me Write to You by Nahid Mehregan takes place in the city of Herat during the first Taliban rule. The novel narrates the lives of several women…
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