Kandahar’s Female Journalists Silenced by Work Bans
“Unemployment has created mental health problems for me. No one can support the family, and I have no way to...
Year: 2026
Poetry, Knowledge, Historical Memory, and Taliban Violence in Abdullah Atefi
The Poem as a Site of Cultural Survival By Ivan Pozzoni Abdullah Atefi occupies a particularly revealing position in contemporary...
Pakistan Orders Afghan Medical Students to Return Home Amid Tensions
Pakistan’s deportation campaign has been widely criticized by humanitarian organizations, which warn that forced returns place vulnerable Afghans at risk...
Pashteen Slams Maryam Nawaz for Calling KP and Balochistan a Threat
By Kadeem Baloch Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s recent claim that Punjab faces greater security threats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),...
Naghma in Fremont: Aisha Wahab’s Win Belongs to Afghan Women
Diaspora communities should use the opportunities available in their countries of residence and support one another. By Kazim Jafari In a...
Afghan Women, Heroes Without Rights
By Sayed Sadullah Sadat Afghan women have long been the silent backbone of their nation, enduring decades of war, political...
The Body and the Pen Under the Black Turban: Pragmatics, Neuro-Aesthetics, and Biopolitics in the Writing of Homeira Qaderi
Exile does not represent the end of Afghan writing; it is the transition of testimony from the national territory to...
Keramat Khan: A Young Afghan Rebuilding His Future Through Language
“I want to learn the language and do vocational training. I want to build a future.” At 18, Keramat Khan...
The Price of a Life: Child Brides in the Silence of Afghanistan
Forced marriages, broken bodies, and the daily tragedy of women under the Taliban yoke: the portrait of a country where...
One Flag, Many Fault Lines: Aisha Wahab and the Diaspora’s Battle Over Identity
“We are one people… it does not matter if you’re Hazara, Pashtun, Shia, Sunni, American‑born or European‑born.” By Kazim Jafari In...
