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 ...
Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show ...
“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 ...
When previously in power, the Taliban destroyed much of the Afghan culture. When Ali Karimi was young, he had to bury his books in the backyard. In 1996, when the Taliban first came to power after ...
After helping the U.S. war mission in Afghanistan, he was able to get himself, his wife and four children out of the country and resettled in Connecticut as part of a special immigrant visa program in ...
The Tuti Gala 2024, held this past Saturday in San Jose, California, was a dazzling celebration of Afghan culture, art, and empowerment, with Afghan celebrities from across the globe gracing the event ...
How do you make a documentary when you can't film in person — and even hiring a cameraperson is risky? That was the challenge for the award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left the country ...
Four Afghan men were ordered to report to the Taliban government's ministry of vice and virtue for dressing in costumes inspired by the TV series Peaky Blinders. The friends were told that their ...
Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Negina Azimi painted her first mural as a member of ArtLords of Afghanistan in March 2017. It was Nowruz, the ...
TO THE TRAGEDY. BROOKLYN BISTRO IN EAST SACRAMENTO CELEBRATING THREE YEARS IN BUSINESS. CULTURE, TO ME, IS YOUR IDENTITY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO DO THE BEST I CAN TO UPHOLD THAT, TO HONOR AFGHAN ...
The war in Afghanistan introduced Americans to a dirt-poor country peopled by fundamentalist mullahs, warlords, persecuted women hidden head to foot in the folds of heavy burkas — and little more.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chelsea Davis is a SF based journalist covering food, drink & travel. Touted as the Bay Area’s first ever contemporary Afghan ...