The arts and cultural sector in Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented crisis, as the simple act of artistic expression has now effectively been criminalised by the Taliban. While the international ...

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 ...

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan. By Lyse Doucet. Hutchinson Heinemann; 448 pages; £25. To be published in America by Allen Lane in November; $29 The “InterCon”—the first ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Violence linked to culture was the main reason for a 20 percent rise in deaths and injuries of females in Afghanistan last year, U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan Jan Kubis ...

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 ...

The Afghanistan Journalists Center said that the media should be free to use the national and official languages or the native languages of the country. This statement was originally published on afjc ...

The event will culminate in a concert of traditional Afghan music showcasing traditional instruments and featuring performances from esteemed artists.