Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...

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No school beyond the sixth grade. No traveling without a male guardian. Death by stoning for “moral crimes” such as adultery. In most places, women must cover themselves from head to toe if they leave ...

The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for a “rehabilitation programme”. Their offence: “imitating actors” and “promoting foreign ...

Over 1,000 Afghan refugees have settled into permanent housing in Des Moines since 2021. Afghan community leaders are seeking $250,000 to purchase a building for a mosque and cultural center. The ...

In this event recording, you'll hear from people working across music, film, writing, and other creative forms to safeguard Afghan culture. Each storyteller offers unique perspectives on cultural ...

STEVENS POINT − In 2019, Sarwat Najib bucked the odds and opened a fashion design firm in Kabul, Afghanistan. By 2020, the business, called Shamla Atelier, was thriving. Najib, 42, was running a ...

Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Negina Azimi painted her first mural as a member of ArtLords of Afghanistan in March 2017. It was Nowruz, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chelsea Davis is a SF based journalist covering food, drink & travel. Touted as the Bay Area’s first ever contemporary Afghan ...

The Taliban’s notorious religious police have detained scores of Afghan women and girls in recent weeks for allegedly violating the extremist group’s Islamic dress code. Among them was Zahra’s younger ...

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