Examining the Taliban’s scheme for the conversion of Ismailis in Afghanistan
As an Ismaili born and raised in Badakhshan, discrimination was not an episode in my life but its texture. Before university, the insults came only occasionally — an arrogant glance in the bazaar, a whispered…
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Reports
Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages
This report has been published in partnership with the Guardian. Parwana* no longer recognises her own children. Once known in her Kandahar village for her beauty, the 36-year-old now sits on…
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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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The Taliban’s double standard for sports: Praise for men, prison for women
Although unofficial reports suggest that Khadija Ahmadzada, the courageous taekwondo coach in Herat arrested for secretly training girls, has finally been released after enduring 12 days in Taliban detention, her…
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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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