Three Years of Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: Assessing the Impact and Charting a Path Forward
By Deema Hiram, Enayat Nasir, Rahim Jami, and Zarqa Yaftali The Taliban has completed three years of power in Afghanistan, forcibly...
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Silent Dreams: The Story of an Afghan Educator in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan
The following article was written by Hadia* as part of VIDC’s “Life under the Taliban” series, in which women and men from...
The Unsteady Fate of Afghanistan’s Private Universities Under Taliban Rule
By Ilhamuddin AfghanIn the wake of the past two decades, Afghanistan has witnessed a transformative surge in higher education, both...
Assessing the Geopolitical Implications of the Taliban’s Return to Power in Afghanistan
By Shahmahmood Miakhel On August 15, 2021, the Taliban retook control following a twenty-year period of brutal war. The political,...
Zholia Parsi and Afghan Women: Defying the Odds in the Face of Adversity
Personal narrative by Tahmina Salik My feelings whirled inside of me as soon as I walked out onto the busy...
Afghan Woman in Diaspora Launches Online School for Girls Denied Education by the Taliban
By Ali Ahmad People in Afghanistan often echo inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell’s famous statement “If one door closes,...
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” Opera: A Painful Historic Recurrence and A Strong Form of Activism To Voice the Suffering of Afghan Women
By Nazila Jamshidi On February 25, Afghan film director, Roya Sadat, orchestrated an opera based on the bestselling novel of...
Afghanistans starke Frauen“. Ein Jahr Widerstand gegen die Taliban-Herrschaft
Von Ali Ahmad und Michael Fanizadeh „Als Nation haben wir alle unsere Fortschritte eingebüßt, aber als Frauen haben wir unsere...
Afghan Women’s Rights Matter
By Ali Ahmad The United Nations has declared the 25th of November as the International Day of Elimination of Violence Against...
One Year of Women’s Resistance Against the Taliban Rule
By Ali Ahmad & Michael Fanizadeh “As a nation, we lost all our achievements, but as women, we lost our...
