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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A Language Beyond Borders: From Rabia Balkhi to Afghan Women Today
Persian is more than a language. It is a living cultural space that continues to connect people across borders and...
The Archive of the Dispersed: Layla Sarahat Rushani and the Poetry Against the Politics of Oblivion
The Word as an Artifact: Exile and the Right to Memory By Ivan Pozzoni The poetry of Layla Sarahat Rushani...
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...
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,...
What It Means to Be a Feminist: A Feminism That Makes No Noise
Being a feminist today does not necessarily require wearing a slogan or joining a rally, even as those actions remain...
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 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...
