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March 2015

March 30, 2015

Farkhunda, A Long Term Vision

Guest Post by Kawsar Hosseini (@kaw_sarr), who writes at the blog East-West Bridge. The story of...

March 06, 2015

Friday Links

A group of Afghan men have marched through the capital Kabul in burkas to draw attention to...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Book Review: I Am the Beggar of the World

Last month, I looked at Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy’s work profiling Afghan women poets...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Words and Images of Afghan Women Poets

Earlier this month, Slate featured a photography-poetry project, “The Secret Lives of Afghanistan’s Female Poets.”...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Afghan Women Post-American Occupation and the Saviour Discourse

After the almost 12-year American occupation, there has been a lot of speculation on the...

November 2011

November 16, 2011

Muslim Women In The Eye of the Camera

In a short interview in The New Yorker this past September, American photographer Lynsey Addario,...

November 15, 2011

Films by Afghan Women Tell Real Stories of Struggle, Patience, and Hope

Women in Afghanistan tend to be depicted as enigmatic objects that defy human comprehension. Media...

August 2011

August 05, 2011

Friday Links | July 5, 2011

We're exploring a Friday Links format here at MMW. It's different than our usual. Let...

July 2011

July 11, 2011

HBO’s “Love Crimes of Kabul”

HBO is set to air “Love Crimes of Kabul” at 9pm tonight as part of...

April 2011

April 20, 2011

A Review of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

For me, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a journalistic field story...

April 13, 2011

Just…Ugh.

And speaking of trash bags, here's a poster for Germany's International Human Rights ad campaign:...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

Wishing Upon an Afghan Star

The images that Afghanistan conjures are usually ones that mirror front-page stories of newspapers around...

January 11, 2011

Masking the Problem: Afghanistan’s “Niqab” Program

Just when I thought we were past discussing the experiences of Muslim women in dichotomies...

October 2010

October 14, 2010

However Tall the Mountain: Stories from an Afghan Girls’ Soccer Team

Named from an Afghan saying that “However tall the mountain, there’s always a road,” However...

September 2010

September 02, 2010

Riz Khan on Afghan Women

The recent cover of Time magazine featuring the photo of Aisha has sparked debate about...

August 2010

August 05, 2010

April 2010

April 05, 2010

Homeland Insecurities: Nel Hedayat and Afghanistan

The BBC documentary Women, Weddings, War and Me follows 21-year-old British Afghan Nel Hedayat (pictured...

December 2009

December 07, 2009

The Afghan Women Tug of War

This was written by Frau Sally Benz and originally published at Feministe. Earlier this week,...

November 2009

November 18, 2009

One Afghan Woman’s Words: Malalai Joya’s Book Tour

Malalai Joya, an Afghan activist for women's rights (and many other things), was in Toronto...

October 2009

October 08, 2009

Behind the Globe and Mail’s Coverage of Women in Kandahar: Part 2

This is my second post covering the Globe and Mail's series on women in Kandahar,...

October 01, 2009

Behind the Globe and Mail’s Coverage of Women in Kandahar: Part 1

This post is the first of two that will analyze the recent Globe and Mail...

December 2008

December 01, 2008

“It’s interesting to have a burqa”

The Western fascination with the burqa has crept up again in a new and mind-boggling...

October 2008

October 01, 2008

The liberating catwalk

This post was written by Sahar and originally published at Nuseiba. Last week was ‘Fashion...

September 2008

September 08, 2008

Last week’s worst headline award goes to…

Study blames mums for Afghan child mortality Seriously? The article tells us: High child mortality...