Using the emblematic burqa to conceal the identities of the women athletes now forbidden from doing what they love best, Noroozi came up with the haunting series of faceless portraits to offer an ...

Since the group claimed power in Afghanistan in August last year, women’s rights have been stripped back by a number of draconian restrictions, including a rule introduced at the end of December ...

the burka-based dress code imposed on girls and women, and the rendering of the Afghan female population invisible especially ...

Despite the burkas and purdah, she told how rather than ... Around the same time she was settling in to her new life, Afghanistan’s rulers in Kabul were determined to usher in changes aimed ...

The book also reflects on pivotal moments in Afghanistan’s history, like in 1959, when then-Prime Minister Prince Daoud’s wife appeared in a national daily without a burka, sparking a wave of ...