‘We pretend we’re married’: How Afghan couples navigate love under the Taliban
In Kabul, Marsal is planning her first Valentine’s Day as a 21-year-old engaged woman. But under Taliban rule, romance requires careful planning and fallback strategies. “I’ll take my seven-year-old niece with me,” she says, explaining…
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Reports
‘Writing is resistance’: Afghan women authors defy the Taliban
This report has been published in partnership with Avvenire.it Among dozens of women whose books have been banned by the Taliban is Leila, a university lecturer in western Afghanistan. Her…
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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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How the Taliban returned Afghanistan to the dark ages
This section states that if a man severely beats his wife, including causing fractures, wounds, or bruises, and the woman is able to prove it, the man will be sentenced…
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Interviews
“I began fight for the right to education from inside my home”: Interview with Rahil Talash
Rahil Ansari Talash was born in Balkh Province. She studied law and political science and began her professional career as a literacy teacher. Starting in 2014, she worked in the…
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Narrative
The murder of a woman journalist whose death wasn’t even reported
She was killed after midnight, in one of the apartment buildings in the city centre of Maima. Her cries for help pierced the stillness of the night — cries the…
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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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