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...
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The Long Beard, the Short Reason: Hasib Ahrari’s Satire Against Taliban Fundamentalism
Beard, prayer mat, rosary, sermon, clerical title and memorized Qur’anic verse are not isolated objects of ridicule. Each is a...
Pakistan’s Expulsion of Afghan Students Sparks Outrage
“We escaped one system that told us, ‘You cannot study because you are a woman.’ Now we are terrified that...
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...
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...
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...
Afghanistan Ambassador’s Independence Day Warning
“Our success and victory lie in national unity.” At the Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe—known as “Little Afghanistan” because it still...
