“I had no choice but to close”: Women business owners
By Laila Yousufy Until July this year, business was booming for Shirin Nazari, a female entrepreneur in the Afghan capital...
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The daily lives of women and children in Bamyan province
.This photo collection by Najibullah Ahmadi, a freelance photographer, depicts the daily life of women and children in autumn in...
“It is our secret fight”: The songs of resistance by two Afghan sisters
By Zahra Nader and Zahra Joya As the Taliban’s crackdown on women’s rights continues, forcing protests by women indoors, some...
After an Afghan girl convinced the Taliban to reopen schools, she was pulled out of school over safety concerns
By M. Mursal Sotooda Forotan, the Afghan teenager who shot to global fame for demanding the Taliban re-open school for...
The famous mobile library is back on the streets of Kabul
By Laila Yousufy A mobile library which brings books and much-needed entertainment to children is back on the streets of...
Under the darkness of Taliban control, a women’s book club is born
By M. Mursal Two months into Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Manizha Bahra, a sociologist in the western province of Herat,...
Women from across Afghanistan are studying at private universities in Kabul. But they no longer have dormitories to stay in.
By Laila Yousufy On August 15, when the Taliban took over the Afghan capital, a third-year university student, Marzia Mirzaie,...
Funding is pulled for the only hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Bamyan province, ending all prevention efforts
By Nargis Amini Amid the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant, the only hospital treating patients with the virus in...
The underground life of women who worked for Afghan security forces
By Laila Yousufy Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, over three months ago, Bahar Mohammadi* is living in constant fear....
Once emblematic of a transformed city, cafe culture is disappearing from the Afghan capital
By Arezo Rahimi On the morning of August 15, Mina Rezaee‘s cafe was open, but unlike any other day over...
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