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 ...
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 ...
Sophia Akbar, the co-founder and co-owner of Oakland restaurants Parche and Jaji, was born and grew up in Walnut Creek. New Concord restaurant Mazza is offering an authentic taste of Afghanistan At ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for a “rehabilitation programme”. Their offence: “imitating actors” and “promoting foreign ...
Over 1,000 Afghan refugees have settled into permanent housing in Des Moines since 2021. Afghan community leaders are seeking $250,000 to purchase a building for a mosque and cultural center. The ...
A U.S. Army vet and filmmaker explores the Afghanistan war and its ending through his interpreters, Ismail and Saifullah Haqmal. By Joshua Skovlund Published Aug 27, 2024 2:24 PM EDT Add Task & ...
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 ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new restaurant in downtown Albuquerque is one of the first of its kind. Afghan Kebab House opened on Tuesday near Second St. and Gold Ave. Mohammad Ismail and his family ...
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 ...