Muzhda Uzbek and the Criminalization of Dissent in the Taliban Emirate
The Word as an Offense: From Poetry to Political Surveillance By Ivan Pozzoni The arrest of Muzhda Uzbek, a poet...
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Taliban in Control, but Afghanistan Remains Far from Stable
By Kazim Jafari Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan's rulers face no immediate threat to their authority. Yet...
Oxford Scholarship Reflects Growing Role of Afghan Diaspora in Women’s Education
While the scholarship is a personal gift, its significance reaches beyond one individual. It reflects a broader trend within the...
Sayed Alam Hashimi: Poetry Under Interrogation: Memory, Dissent, and the Suppression of the Word in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan
The Poet as a Political Problem: Documented Biography and the Construction of Dissent By Ivan Pozzoni What renders a poet...
Bakhtari Advocates for Afghan Women in Strasbourg
As international attention increasingly shifts away from Afghanistan, Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan's ambassador and permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna,...
The Price of Apathy: Afghanistan’s Compounding Crisis
More than 50 percent of women-led civil society organizations have not received any new funding since last year, and due...
Rights Erode as Durand Line Tensions Escalate
A country that looks calm on the surface but is cracking underneath. Five years after the Taliban swept back into...
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...
Karzai Under the Taliban: Confined Life, Unbroken Stand for Girls’ Education
“The only time that children got the opportunity to educate themselves… was the 20 years of the Republic.” By Kazim Jafari...
August’s Story: A Nation That Won Freedom, and a Half That Lost It
No society can build stability by excluding women or suppressing entire communities. By Gousuddin Mir (President of AKIS Cultural Association in...
