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Founder of Afghan Peace Watch. Formerly with The Wall Street Journal.
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The Taliban seek to erase the beauty and authenticity of Afghan dresses by imposing the burqa on all women. Afghan women’s traditional jewelry and dresses are not just fashion—they’re heritage, with every detail a masterpiece of culture and timeless beauty.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

The Taliban and their families seek medical treatment in Pakistan, Qatar, and send their children to elite schools there. The bans on women’s education affect only ordinary Afghan, particularly women, not the Taliban leaders or their families.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Young female students at Kabul University when Afghanistan was not Talibanistan.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

The Taliban’s new ban on women in medicine is a direct denial of healthcare access for Afghan women. Under Taliban law, women are legally prohibited from speaking to men who aren’t relatives, let alone visiting a male gynecologist, and now they’re banned from studying medicine.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Emotional footage from Afghanistan shows Afghan female medical students and their instructor in tears, consoling each other after the Taliban banned them from continuing their studies. The new directive shuts women out of medicine—the last field still open to them.

submitted 86 days ago • 9 comments

Afghanistan’s stunning traditional attire 🇦🇫

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

These Arab sheikhs are living the most un-islamic lives in their palaces while their spoiled kids are indulge in lavish blowouts on western beaches, yet they continue funding jihad in countries like Afghanistan and supporting fanatics like the Taliban—all in the name of Islam.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Normalizing the Taliban is normalizing misogyny, terrorism, and suicide bombings. It’s also normalizes oppression, gender apartheid, human rights violations, torture and rape.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

A girl from Kabul, who had studied medicine for 2 years, had to shift to private nursing school after the Taliban banned universities. But when she showed up for class today, the instructor informed everyone that the Taliban had just enforced a ban on nursing education for women.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

The Taliban’s new ban prevents women from studying dentistry, nursing, and midwifery. Despite their general ban on higher education for women, some schools had still been accepting female students in these fields—until now.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

I found the original Afghan version of “Bella Ciao”, the iconic protest anthem from Italy, performed by Afghan socialist women in the 1970s.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Girls in Afghanistan are not allowed to attend school simply because they were born female. The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education has now lasted for 1,172 days, keeping 1.4 million teenage girls out of school. #LetHerLearn

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

The Taliban’s “anti-begging laws” criminalize poverty by targeting vulnerable women, and even children in detention face abuse.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

What happens to women when religious extremists take over a country? Afghanistan is just one devastating example.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Afghan Women’s March in 1980s Kabul.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Afghanistan’s first women’s magazine, Irshad-e Naswan, founded in 1921 by Queen Soraya Tarzi. Published weekly, it covered women’s rights, education, social reform, child care, politics, and fashion.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

In Afghanistan, teenage girls are banned from attending school by the Taliban, and it has been 1,170 days since this oppressive policy was enforced by their misogynistic regime. #LetHerLearn

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Chile, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, and Mexico have referred the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls to the ICC. Support from major powers and Muslim nations for this initiative is yet to be seen.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Afghanistan’s Ariana Airlines had female air hostesses in the 1970s and until the collapse in 2021. Since then, the Taliban have replaced all women in the cabin crew with men.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

A 1878 Punch cartoon shows Afghanistan trapped between the Russian bear and the British lion.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

The Taliban has made it illegal for girls to go to school in Afghanistan. For 1,166 days, teenage girls have been locked out of classrooms, denied the chance to learn, grow, and chase their aspirations. #LetHerLearn

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The Citadel of Herat in Afghanistan, originally built around 330 BC, has served as a key headquarters for various ancient empires, enduring numerous destructions and rebuilds. It was fully renovated between 2006 and 2011.

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

In the 1960s, Afghan women studied alongside men at Kabul University. Today, Afghanistan under the Taliban is the only country where girls’ education is illegal.

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

Pashtun nomadic women in 1980s Afghanistan.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments