In 2018, Samira Asghari became the first representative from Afghanistan to join the International Olympic Committee. She has ...

A commemoration marking the first anniversary of the Kaaj Education Center attack in western Kabul, 2023. Photo: Social media On September 30, 2022, a suicide bomber attacked the Kaaj Educational ...

Hamida* remembers the rhythm of her old life in Mashhad: mornings spent studying marketing and afternoons running a jewellery and handicrafts workshop she had built herself. “I trained others and ...

This narrative has been published in partnership with the Guardian. My name is Leima*. I am 24 years old. I was studying computer science at a private university in Nangarhar province. I was in my ...

This narrative has been published in partnership with the Guardian. My name is Fatema*. I am 32 years old and a mother of six children: four sons and two daughters. Every day, my sister Marzia and I ...

This narrative has been published in partnership with the Guardian. Coffee is my therapy. Every morning, as soon as I get out of bed, the first thing I reach for is a cup of coffee. At the same time, ...

Rada Akbar is one of the most distinguished figures in contemporary art. The prominent Afghan visual artist, photographer, and cultural activist turns art into a tool for storytelling, awareness, and ...

Sabza with the her daughter, who was promised to her future husband when she was three, to repay a debt of about £3,570. Photograph: Neda Noran and Atousa Azar for Zan Times This report has been ...

As an Afghan scientist and educator, I never imagined that the age at which many girls experience their first menstrual cycle would one day coincide with the age at which their country would decide ...

To buy a ticket for my trip to Kabul, my sister and I went to the office of a bus company. The staff told me that because I did not have a mahram (male guardian) with me, they could not sell me a ...

It was Nowruz 2024 when, after much insistence, we convinced my family that my younger sister and I should travel via smuggling routes to Pakistan so she could continue her education. First, we went ...

Munira, a 26-year-old transgender woman, has been living in a Pakistani shelter for LGBTQ+ people since 2023. She says that Germany rejected her asylum case without giving a credible reason in January ...