Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...

“This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee this morning as he pled with the UK government to house dozens of ...

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel of their lives, concerns, and dreams ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A gathering celebrating Afghan culture drew hundreds to the University of Indianapolis (UIndy) on the same week marking four years since refugees escaping the Taliban arrived in ...

No school beyond the sixth grade. No traveling without a male guardian. Death by stoning for “moral crimes” such as adultery. In most places, women must cover themselves from head to toe if they leave ...

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Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – ...

Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – ...

Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR ...

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“This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee this morning as he pled with the UK government to house dozens of ...