Skrevet i sand: Jenters utdanning under Taliban
Written in Sand: International Pressure and Girls’ Education Under the Taliban
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Taliban
The Othering of Afghan Women and Girls
Afghan women in the diasporas are in a race against time to raise global awareness that urgent global action is needed to dismantle the gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
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The Audacity of Rest
Maybe leisure – play, rest, daydreaming – is the most radical resistance against repressive forces. In this article, Afghan women writers living under Taliban rule or as refugees reflect on their in-between times, where life is lived.
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Afghanistan is Not a Backdrop
Afghanistan doesn’t need visitors looking for a spectacle or to be portrayed through filtered reels. It needs not to be forgotten.
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Family Album
The 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan delivered a blow to the nascent Afghan film industry. But a resilient and determined group of exiled filmmakers are finding their voices once again.
Editorial
Afghans have constituted one of the world’s largest and most protracted displaced populations, with many unable to imagine “home.”
Will the West’s Newfound Solidarity with the Afghan Refugees Last?
While a humanitarian crisis was unfolding on the tarmac of Kabul International Airport, thanks to a televised address by French President Emmanuel Macron, Afghan refugees caught a glimpse of what to expect in life on the run. Now accused of pandering to the far-right, Macron argued that his country must “anticipate and protect itself from
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আফগান নারীদের চোখে তালিবানের ক্ষমতা দখল ও আফগান জনগণের মুক্তির প্রসঙ্গ
অনুবাদকের ভূমিকা: আফগানিস্তানে তালিবান বাহিনী ক্ষমতা দখল করেছে। বাংলাদেশের মূলধারার সংবাদপত্রগুলো তাদের রাজনৈতিক চরিত্র অনুযায়ী এই পরিবর্তনকে ব্যাখ্যা করছে। মূলধারার ইসলামপন্থী সংবাদ মাধ্যমগুলো তালিবানের এই ক্ষমতা দখলকে আফগান ‘জনগণের বিজয়’ হিসাবে দেখছে। অন্যদিকে সেকুলার রাজনৈতিক সংবাদমাধ্যম গুলো তালিবান শাসনের অতীত ইতিহাসকে আবারও সামনে এনে আফগান জনগণের জন্যে আসন্ন ভবিষ্যৎ নিয়ে আলোচনা হাজির করার চেষ্টা করছে। মূলধারার
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Do Afghan women need saving?
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on August 16th, 2021, there was a sense of Deja Vu. Decades after 9/11, just as scholars had become able to criticise the white feminist saviour narrative that justified the ‘war on terror in the name of saving Muslim women, it seems that history is repeating itself. I
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Stand in solidarity with the Afghan people
What took place in the span of a few months after the Biden administration decided to leave the Afghan government to its own devices was decades in the making. For twenty years, beginning with the Karzai government and ending with the Ghani government, none of the US-backed governments managed to gain the trust of the
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