Afghan refugees in Iran have been systematically marginalized—cast as outsiders, threats, or scapegoats. While Iran’s policies toward Afghan refugees have fluctuated—from periods of open-door hospitality to expulsions—the core approach has remained consistent: treating the Afghan refugees as the “other” and…
This year marks the fourth International Women’s Day in which the Taliban have imprisoned Afghan women and girls inside their homes. Since the Taliban emerged as an Islamist armed group in 1994, they became notorious for their anti-women policies. During…
This report has been published in partnership with the Guardian. Sahar still doesn’t know how she got from a quiet night in her modest home in Shiraz to a blistering roadside in western Afghanistan, with five children, one handbag and…See more
I am an exiled Afghan journalist who lives in Iran. Over the past three years, I have experienced humiliation and discrimination in this country, which have left me with depression and despair. During the Iran-Israel war, I and other Afghans…See more
Mazda Mehregan is a poet and social activist. In recent years, she began publicly sharing stories of sexual harassment, assault, exploitation, and the ways by which men make women feel indebted to them. Before the fall of Kabul the Taliban, Mazda…See more
Afghan refugees in Iran have been systematically marginalized—cast as outsiders, threats, or scapegoats. While Iran’s policies toward Afghan refugees have fluctuated—from periods of open-door hospitality to expulsions—the core approach has remained consistent: treating the Afghan refugees as the “other” and…See more
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 whose world is no larger than the courtyard of a…See more
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