Will women’s sports return to Afghanistan?
In 2018, Samira Asghari became the first representative from Afghanistan to join the International Olympic Committee. She has a background in basketball and football and has captained Afghanistan’s national team. In this interview, Zan Times…
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Reports
‘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…
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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 can an ordinary person support Afghan women?
August 2026 marked five years since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, and five years since I began my journey as an advocate for Afghan women. Over the years,…
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Interviews
‘The Taliban takeover broke us, but did not silence us’: An interview with Mubina Khairandish
Over the past two decades, Afghan women have played a decisive role in raising awareness and empowering society through media and education. Mubina Khairandish — a former lecturer at Balkh…
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Narrative
Afghan woman says her journalist husband vanished in Islamabad
This narrative was told to Zan Times via phone: I am Hosina Hashimi, the wife of Qasim Hashimi, a journalist who has been missing in Pakistan for the past three…
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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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