Instead, we must strain to peer through the mists cloudingour vision of Afghanistan, lest we view that country no moreclearly than I first did through the veil of a burka on that busride many ...

PJ Harvey has described wearing a veil, while filming on location in Afghanistan, as a "freeing experience". The UK singer's new film, A Dog Called Money, examines the making of her hit album ...

The book also reflects on pivotal moments in Afghanistan’s history ... sparking a wave of women abandoning the purdah (veil). Women stepped out in long coats and hats, and by the 1970s, they ...

One of the few officials in Afghanistan ’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to ...

On January 23, 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed two applications for warrants of arrest ...