Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burka with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban’s oppression of women. Since their return to ...

The New Afghanistan, Through the Eyes of Three Women How lives have changed under the Taliban’s increasingly restrictive rule. 2023-06-05T06:00:10-04:00.

Afghan women wearing a burqa hold placards as they protest for their right to education, in Mazar-i-Sharif on August 12, 2023.

Women in Afghanistan are not allowed to show any skin, including their eyes. Before this law was passed, however, it was put forth as a recommendation -- not enforced -- and many women would show ...

In the 1980s, a photograph of an Afghan girl with haunting green eyes graced the cover of National Geographic magazine. Living in a refugee camp, she was unaware that her photograph had evoked a wave ...

The reunion between the woman with green eyes and the photographer was quiet. On the subject of married women, cultural tradition is strict. She must not look—and certainly must not smile—at a ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.