‘Our wings have been cut’: The reality facing women forced back to Afghanistan
Hamida* remembers the rhythm of her old life in Mashhad: mornings spent studying marketing and afternoons running a jewellery and handicrafts workshop she had built herself. “I trained others and marketed my own products,” she…
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Reports
‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed
This report has been published in partnership with the Guardian. In a voice message recorded weeks before she died, Liza Shams, 33, asks a relative to pray for her. “There’s no…
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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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From the empty niches of Bamiyan to the empty chairs of Afghan girls
I was a child when the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan. Yet some of what I witnessed on the streets of Kabul remains very clear to me. I saw women being…
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Interviews
‘A generation born to depressed mothers’: a psychologist’s warning for Afghanistan’s future
Zohra Noori is a psychologist and counsellor who has worked for more than a decade providing professional support in Kabul. She completed her specialized studies in psychology in Tehran and…
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Narrative
‘What if I have to go back?’ Afghan female students in Pakistan face looming deportation
When I won a government scholarship to study in Pakistan, I didn’t tell my father. Previously, I’d once won a scholarship to Bangladesh but he didn’t let me go. This…
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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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