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Farzana Wahidy (born 1984) is an Afghan documentary photographer and photojournalist.She has made photographs of women and girls in Afghanistan. She was the first female photographer in Afghanistan to work with international media agencies such as the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Interest in the photograph increased after the 9/11 attacks, when the George W. Bush administration began promoting Afghan women's rights during the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan. [ 16 ] [ 25 ] Photographs of Gula were featured as part of a cover story on her life in the April 2002 issue of National Geographic and she was the subject of ...
Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic.
The past can be quite fascinating.Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the ...
With the new film Bread and Roses streaming now on Apple TV+, Lawrence, 34, and Yousafzai, 27, turned the camera over to Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani to collect footage of women Mani knew in ...
There is no one better to tell the story of womenhood in Afghanistan than the women themselves
Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban.In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women. [4] Since the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban gradually imposed many restrictions on women's freedom of movement, education, and employment.
Radio Begum launched on International Women’s Day in March 2021, just five months before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan during the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the ...