My name is Rahima. I am 23 years old and I have been working as a midwife for a year at a government hospital in northeastern Afghanistan. One night, three women suddenly rushed in while I and two colleagues were…
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…
I might never have grasped the full depth of the suffering of Afghan migrant workers had I not spoken directly to them and experienced two days in a detention camp in Iran. As a journalist, my deportation from Iran —…See more
My name is Rahima. I am 23 years old and I have been working as a midwife for a year at a government hospital in northeastern Afghanistan. One night, three women suddenly rushed in while I and two colleagues were…See more
Interview with Pashtana Durrani Pashtana Durrani is a human rights activist and the founder of Learn Afghan, a non-governmental organization dedicated to educating girls. The organization operates through a distributed network of tablets equipped with an offline learning platform and…See more
Before the emergence of the modern education system and the rise of universities, madrasas were the main centres for learning, literacy, and nurturing elites. They were where people acquired the knowledge necessary for politics, administration, and culture. Sometimes, activities resembling…See more
In the summer of 2021, Afghanistan plunged into chaos as the Taliban seized control. Artists, journalists, writers, and human rights activists fled for their lives. I, along with the girls the theatre group, escaped the country aboard a military aircraft…See more
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