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At first, 14-year-old Nila Ibrahimi just wanted to sing. When her home country of Afghanistan banned girls over the age of 12 from singing in public in March 2021 – months before the Taliban ...
Nila Ibrahimi (Persian/Dari/Hazaragi: نیلا ابراهیمی; born 2006 or 2007) is an ethnic Hazara teen activist from Afghanistan who advocates for the rights of Afghan girls and women. [ 1 ] In March 2021, after Afghanistan banned girls and women over the age of 12 from singing publicly, Ibrahimi recorded a protest song and published it ...
A 17-year-old girl who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of other Afghan girls.
It was a small but powerful protest against a decree by the then-director of education in the Afghan capital, Kabul, who tried to ban girls over 12 singing in public. The attempted order was never ...
Zahra Elham (Persian: زهرا الهام; born c. 2002) is a Hazara singer best known for being the first female winner of the reality singing competition Afghan Star. Elham has continued her music career since receiving asylum in Australia following the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan .
Aryana Sayeed (Pashto/Dari: آريانا سعيد, born 1985) is an Afghan pop singer and women rights activist. She sings mostly in Dari Persian but also has many songs in Pashto and some in Uzbek. Sayeed also had hosting roles in musical television shows for the 1TV and TOLO networks along with appearances on reality shows. [2]
Farzana Naz (Pashto: فرزانه ناز) is an Afghan female singer born in Baghlan, Afghanistan. She sings mainly Pashto songs and made her first songs in Pakistan, due to the unstable situation in Afghanistan. Her mother is a Dari speaker while her father belongs to the Pashtun tribe.
Masih Alinejad, a prominent Iranian journalist and activist, shared a video of herself singing a well-known Afghan song in support of the protests, many of which have used a hashtag that ...