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Dr. Halima Kazem حلیمه کاظم

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Histories of women's resistance and activism are often overlooked. Join me on Monday May 20th at 4pm PST for a lecture and discussion looking at 120 Years of Women's Resistance in Iran and Afghanistan. Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In person and on zoom. Register…

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Dr. Halima Kazem حلیمه کاظم

@HalimaKazem

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Afghan women accomplished so much in sports during the last 20 years but now they can't even train properly. This heartbreaking photo series by @EbrahimNoroozi1 shows how the Taliban regime have relegated these athletes to the shadows of Afghan society.

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It is a historic day when an Afghan woman is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Women’s rights activist, Ms. Mahbouba Seraj is a finalist for the prestigious prize and I wish her luck in the selection process! At a time when millions of Afghan women are oppressed & their basic…

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As an Afghan, I grew up hearing all Russians vilified and called evil. Until my early teens when I learned that most govts don't represent their people and average people all over the world have more in common than we think. This photo is a reminder of our shared humanity

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People attend an anti-war protest in Saint Petersburg, Russia, amid Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. LIVE UPDATES:

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Taliban Minister of Edu quoted saying that according to Sharia, girls should only be educated up to the 6th grade. After that schooling causes bad behavior (fisat). Can you show me where it says this in the Quran? Never seen this but have seen many references to education for all

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Just got this photo from a reliable source in Afghanistan. This how she was asked to do her job today.

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Afghan women who led protests in various provinces this week are reporting that they are being hunted down by Taliban and threatened. Families are receiving calls from TB. This has to STOP. We need more attention and pressure on this issue.

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At least 2 killed and 7 wounded during Herat's protest (led by women) today. Those who went to the hospital to visit the wounded were apprehended by the Taliban. Many protestors had their mobile phones confiscated. Many forms of #Resistance , especially #feministresistance in AF

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Sharbat Gul was fetishized and objectified by Nat Geo and the west. The world was to be shocked because such an exotic girl could be found in Afghanistan but lived in poverty and war. She never agreed to be the face of any of it. Please don't do the same to this young girl.

Ziar Khan Yaad🇦🇫

@ziaryaad

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Today's Sharbat Gull on the streets of Kabul. Hunger, poverty and the closed doors of educational institutions are the current identity of Afghanistan.

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Thank you @h_urdal and the Peace Institute in Oslo @PRIOresearch for recognizing the brave and important work that our @SerajMahbouba is doing in Afghanistan and recommending her for the Nobel Peace Prize. I support your recommendation wholeheartedly! @NobelPeaceOslo

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Please read and share this new report I just finished with @heatherbarr1 from Human Rights Watch's Women's Rights Division. We detail how women's lives in Ghazni have changed under the Taliban. Afghanistan: Taliban Deprive Women of Livelihoods, Identity

Afghanistan: Taliban Deprive Women of Livelihoods, Identity

Taliban rule has had a devastating impact on Afghan women and girls, new research shows.

www.hrw.org

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What an adventure it was to find the grave of Mahmud Tarzi who was a great Afghan politician, ambassador, intellectual and the father of journalism. Tarzi was buried at the Eyup Sultan Cemetery in Istanbul in 1933. We arrived at the gate of the cemetery and realized it was…

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Join on us for an update about the Afghan Adjustment Act Twitter Space on Monday 12/12 7am PT/ 10am ET @saf_rauf @ZabihUllahR @mattczeller @alexplitsas

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Hearing from women in Herat that local journalists stood side by side with the protestors, refusing to turn off their cameras, even when Taliban told them that they would break their cameras. Power to the Afghan journalists who are risking their lives to cover the protests.

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Ghazni has a large Hazara population. I was just told that many Hazaras in Ghazni are taking Pashto classes/ lessons because the Taliban are enforcing Pashto as the main language now instead of Dari. Many who used to speak Dari to them don't now. Hazaragi needs to be preserved.

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Filming in Kabul. This man worked inside Puli Charkhi prison right after the 1978 communist coup and shared the horrid stories of mass killings and torture that occurred inside there. Eye witness account. For a documentary that I am working on about the prison and the era.

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Afghan fighter pilot @Mahdi_Amadi was based in Kandahar leading up to the August 12-13 Taliban takeover of the province. He says it is a lie that the regular soldiers gave up the fight against the Taliban but the generals did. He also says @KarzaiH visited the province during...

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Just received a message from a female university professor in Afghanistan. She told me that the Taliban just announced that all of the women run bakeries will be shut down. I didn't know they were still open. These bakeries employ so many women, especially widows. Let them work!

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Afghan friends: Do you have a mother, grandmother, aunt, or any female relative older than 80 years old now and lived in Afghanistan between 1958 - 1965? Any province is fine. If so, please let me know. I would like to ask them a few questions for my research. Please DM me

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3 years

So worried about the shortage of jobs, cash and food in Afghanistan. Talking to people in Ghazni province and food prices have more than doubled since August. A single egg (cheap source of protein) went from 6 Afghanis to 13 AFN. Flour has gone from 1200 AFN to 2500 AFN for 25 KG

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I am sharing a google drive link to my father, Dr. Said Abdullah Kazem's @drkazemsa , 2005 book titled Afghan Women Under the Pressure of Tradition and Modernization. Although it is out of print now, it has become a primary reference on women's history in Afghanistan. Recently he…

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#NewProfilePic . I realized that my previous profile photo was almost 10 years old. Here’s a current one. Embracing a slightly older but wiser self! 😆

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I took this photo in early 2002 at a Kabul girls' school when schools were just reopening after the fall of the Taliban regime. There was incredible joy those days because most girls this age hadn't attended school yet and they were eager to learn. #letafghangirlslearn

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I'm honored to be part of a meeting with more than 64 Afghan women & a group of envoys who will be at the Doha conference on Afghanistan today & tomorrow. We had recommendations for the envoys. As a collective of Afghan women we demand that women are centered in every peace…

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I wake up to dozens of requests from Afghan friends asking for money because their savings have run out and they haven't received salaries in 5 months. I can hear the pain and humiliation in their voices even when i say " it's not your fault, don't be sorry for asking." 💔🇦🇫

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Afghan women who led protests in various provinces this week are reporting that they are being hunted down by Taliban and threatened. Families are receiving calls from TB. This has to STOP. We need more attention and pressure on this issue. Please share! @UNHumanRights

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@HalimaKazem

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Heard some heartbreaking news that Ismael Mashal may be in Taliban custody. He is the university lecturer in Kabul who tore up his diplomas on Tolo TV & renounced the Taliban ban on Afghan women attending universities. He later set up his own teaching cart & handed out free books

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World leaders and UN member states have a moral obligation to hold the Taliban responsible for gender apartheid in Afghanistan and their crimes against humanity. All the evidence is there. Young Afghan women shouldn’t have to conduct hunger strikes, to the brink of death, to call…

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Today is International Mother Language Day & I want to honor the Farsi/ Dari that is spoken in Afghanistan. For me that is Kabuli Farsi. I grew up in the US being told by Iranian Farsi teachers that our Farsi was wrong/ provincial. There is so much beauty & history in our Farsi.

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A powerful & detailed testimony by @SayedSamiSadat in today's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing about the failures of the Obama, Trump, & Biden administrations in Afghanistan The 2 hour hearing is worth listening to, especially by those who doubted the Afghan security…

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These are the dates the Taliban took over each province. Almost all of the country in 9 days except for Panjshir. Will take many years/ decades to understand what happened in each of these provinces on and around these dates. So much to unpack here. Source: SIGAR 10/30/21

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Unfortunately, this is true about much of the US news, especially local television news. Covering crime is their bread and butter, even petty crime sometimes. Disappointing how important community issues go unreported or unearthed. Local news needs to matter more.

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@equalityAlec

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When the history of how fascists came to power in the United States is written, it will be particularly unkind to the liberal academics, journalists, and politicians who fear-mongered about "crime" by the poor and pushed surveillance and state violence as the solution.

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Herati photojournalist, Murtaza Samadi, has been released by the Taliban. He's with his family again! So happy for him. Thank you all who shared my posts about Murtaza and wrote about him.

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Spoke to a nurse in Ghazni recently and she said people are coming to the hospital with household items and food to exchange for health services. Back to bartering. Afghanistan's food and economic crisis.

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Aug 1993, Mujahideen gov - AfghanSupremeCourt "Women should be educated only at home by fathers, brothers, close relatives. Learn basics of Islam, not worldly subjects. Girls should not be taught to write because they would only use the skill to write love letters to strange men"

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Set a reminder for my upcoming Space!

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Afghan women in Ghazni tell us they don't feel safe despite all of the political talk that the Taliban will bring safety and security to Afghanistan. Read our new report on women's lives in Ghazni province @hrw @heatherbarr1

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Ukraine helped evacuate many Afghan refugees but they are now stuck in Kyiv as the Ukrainians themselves are fleeing. Compounding tragedies!

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Taliban spokesperson trying to take credit for the last 20 years of educational development. He left out one stat: Total Number of Female Students between grades 7-12 currently attending: 0

Suhail Shaheen. محمد سهیل شاهین

@suhailshaheen1

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Education n Afghanistan: Total Number of Schools: 19,334 Public Schools:16,472 Private Schools: 2,862 Total Number of Teachers: 242,601 Total Number of Female Teachers: 92,401 Total Number of students : 10,147,024 Total Number of girls students from I-VI grade: 2,709,969

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Been having long conversations with friends who still live in Kabul & am learning that the shock of the Taliban has worn off for some & reality has set in that most of them can't leave. They say this has opened them up to see their society again & themselves in it. Even have...

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Afghan Twitter: I am looking for women who lived in kabul during the civil war 1992-1996 and were old enough to remember the fighting. This is for my research. Please DM me

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We really need @westernunion to open up again in Afghanistan.

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Afghan twitter: Who knows this Afghan lady Gulljan in Kabul? I was so moved by her story. Also, I miss all of the scenes of Shar-e-Naw in the video.

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"Our country is so backward that it's important to provide books to the people." Always on the move, Gulljan is risking her life everyday selling non-Islamic books on the streets of Taliban-controlled Kabul.

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the lead-up to the takeover and persuaded Kandahri leaders and generals based there not to fight the Taliban. He talks about how he got back to Kabul and had to stop in 2 other provinces to refuel. We need to hear from more Afghan soldiers about these details.

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The #AfghanAdjustmentAct is at a critical point. 54 US Senators in favor. 6 more needed, especially the following North Carolina @SenThomTillis Texas @JohnCornyn Alabama @SenShelby Nebraska @SenSasse & Deborah Fischer Idaho @MikeCrapo & @SenatorRisch Utah @SenatorRomney

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@EjazMalikzada @ben_acheson @penswordbooks "Wolves Among Men", Trying to understand this title. So the Pashtun are predatory animals that run in packs?? I don't agree with any Afghans being called this. I am part Pashtun, but I think every person from Afghanistan should denounce this kind of dehumanizing language.

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So, I think today is my 45th birthday! There is a lot of history behind this statement. I've always known that I was born in either October or November of 1977, about six months before the communist coup in Kabul. My exact birthdate is unknown because the Afghan and American

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Courageous Hazara women facing the #Taliban on Kabul streets. Especially brave because #Hazaras have historically been persecuted by TB. You can see woman in purple scarf negotiating with soldier. She hesitates at moments but pushes forward. #Feminist #resistance in #Afghanistan .

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#Taliban try to stop women protesters in #Kabul 's Dashti-E-Barchi. Moments later, they passed.

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New research I co-authored with Heather Barr @heatherbarr1 about women's lives in Herat and their efforts to retain their rights under the Taliban regime. Deep respect for the women in Herat who trusted us and shared their stories. @hrw @SJSUHumanRights

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@HalimaKazem

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40 internal battles were fought under Abdur Rahman Khan mostly because he wanted to consolidate power & squash revolts all over the country including areas in Hazarajat & Kafiristan (Nooristan). Wasn't a policy against one group. This has been overlooked in the historiography...

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She recently made hateful remarks about Afghanistan’s history of state sanctioned genocide against Hazaras, and dismissive of women protestors. There are women in Afghanistan more deserving of this nomination instead of another accolade handed to our political elites. 2/2

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Why is this protest allowed but not the Afghan women's protests? The women were calling for similar things, food, jobs. Also, their rights! Taliban watching this protest, which looks planned with all of the pre-printed signs. But the women get shot at and forced to disperse.

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Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Kabul on Sunday to rally against U.S. sanctions. The demonstrators demanded the unfreezing of about $9.5bn in central bank assets, which were blocked by U.S. President Joe Biden's administration in August.

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Register and join us for this important discussion on Afghan SIV applicants still stuck in Afghanistan and in danger of being killed by the Taliban. Featuring @saf_rauf from @HumanFirstAfg , @jeff_phaneuf @n1leftbehind , SIV applicants Register here:

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@HalimaKazem

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@Worldtweet123 @Pashteenidrees1 @mjdawar @NiamatUllahWaz7 @RehamKhan1 @raziyamasumi @Achakzai__raziq @shinwari_mosam @Nafisa_Amini @shabnamdawran Please stop objectifying and spreading this little girl's photo. Don't create another Sharbat Gul. This can put her in danger and is irresponsible.

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Sad to see the Afghan national flag colors of black, red, green taken off of the logo of the national broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan. Taliban regime has stripped it of its legacy and history. I remember going to RTA offices when it first reopened in 2002. @rtaworld

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My story on PRI today! How #Lesbos residents drove the far-right Golden Dawn party off the island

How Lesbos residents drove the far-right Golden Dawn party off the island - The World from PRX

For Greece's ultranationalist Golden Dawn party, the world’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II was a political opportunity. And Lesbos seemed a natural place to build a base of support. It...

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Can we please get a delegation of real Islamic scholars to visit the Taliban and reeducate them on the Quran and Sharia? Who would you recommend? The lives of millions of Afghan women and girls are at stake. @rezaaslan @ostadjaan @TheLadyImam @TariqRamadan @YasminMogahed

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@HalimaKazem

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Gasoline has almost doubled in Kabul since the Taliban takeover. A liter of gasoline is about 76 Afghanis right now but was about 41 AFN in early August. This limits the movement of people traveling for work (if they are lucky to have a job) and goods for trade and business.

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This is what solidarity looks like! This is the only way Afghans are going to force the Taliban to change. Stand together and resist their rights being curtailed. Thank you Tolo news!

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Male journalists cover their faces in the @TOLOnews after female colleagues were forced to wear face veils by the Taliban #Afghanistan

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"The US should have dropped a nuclear bomb on Afghanistan & put us out of our misery. Living under the Taliban is dying a slow & painful death, especially for women & girls." What an Afghan woman working in higher education said to me in a phone conversation last night #AllOrNone

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I am looking for an Afghan woman with solid professional experience filming interviews for documentaries. I don't need an interviewer, I need a videographer who understands lighting, camera angles and sound recordings. This will be a paid position with travel expenses covered.…

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If you want to donate to the earthquake victims in Herat, @hbt_org is a reputable organization working in Afghanistan and serving earthquake victims right now.

Khalyla Harito

@KhalylaHarito

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You can now donate to Help Build Tomorrow @HBT_ORG to help those that have been affected by the recent earthquake in #Herat #Afghanistan . Please follow the link for easy access. Thank you 🌺

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These brave Afghan women carrying banners saying We Need Food - Do Not Sell children- Save Afghanistan. The women will carry the burden of watching their children starve and die.

TOLOnews

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Video: Women protesters in Kabul, chanting slogans for jobs, food and for their rights to be recognized, call on the international community to aid Afghanistan and avert disaster. #TOLOnews

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Little balloon seller in Kabul 💔 He is selling a product that is meant to bring joy to children, yet he is probably hungry and exhausted.

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Pic of the Day Kabul,Afghanistan # #عكسونه خبرى كوى💔

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Taliban are increasing arrests and attacks against women's rights activists in order to silence other women and stop them from protesting. They know the attacks will be publicized on social media and that will instill fear in more women than to go after each activist/ protestor.

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A young women in Afghanistan wrote me today, "I lost my life today." She was referring to the Taliban's new ban on women attending universities. Education is life for many women and girls in Afghanistan.

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Look what just arrived! @BarakPashtana ’s book Last to Eat, Last to Learn. Can’t wait to read it! keep a look out for an upcoming X space with Pashtana Jan to discuss and share her experiences. Congrats Pashtana Jan!

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Taliban Foreign Minister Muttaqi uses the Conference on Palestine in Tehran today to try to justify his regime's violations of girls' and women's right in Afghanistan. He calls it an "epic paradox" that Israel is allowed by the human rights community to continue its atrocities in…

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Video: At a high-level consultative conference on Palestine in Tehran, Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Islamic Emirate's acting foreign minister, referring to Gaza said "the world that talks of human rights, human values, freedom and justice, is watching the brutal massacre." #TOLOnews

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The Taliban regime has banned women from attending universities. Hurts me to read this! I trained many Herat & Balkh University Journalism & Public Relations professors over the years. Also had an office at Kabul Univ. Loved seeing students, especially women so happy to be there

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I listened to panels "about" Afghan women this week with diaspora women and international women. They were lacking focus and reflection that even under these difficult times Afghan women (inside Af) have agency and are mobilizing in Afghanistan in their own ways. Recognize that!

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My Baba Jan’s @drkazemsa latest book! This one is about Sardar Yayha Khan’s legacy and his family’s history. Yayha Khan was Nader khan’s grandfather. The history of their lineage and their ties to Britain later on are critical to Afghanistan’s history. The book is available in…

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Listen to this episode of #SASSpod from the Center for South Asia at @Stanford University. I share my research on Politics, Gender and Empire in #Afghanistan . I also talk about what the Oral History Archive on Afghanistan at Stanford means to me. Thank you @lalindia

Center for South Asia at Stanford

@csastanford

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🎙️ NEW! On the #SASSpod : @lalindia talks to @halimakazem about the Afghanistan Oral History Project at @HooverArchives , and her work training journalists in Afghanistan. Listen now:

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Female students of Kabul University tell me that they can't even approach the gates of the university now. Armed Taliban soldiers still guard the gates. They also can't request transcripts. Afghanistan is the only country that doesn't allow higher education for women. #AllorNone

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I'm so worried about Morteza Samadi, a photojournalist in Herat. The #Taliban detained him last month while he was covering a protest and are now planning on executing him. #ReleaseMorteza All journalist friends share widely. Put pressure on Taliban @bsarwary @bbclysedoucet

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Yes, we need a humanitarian corridor, international control of Kabul International Airport, no airport checkpoints by the Taliban, charter flights into KIA, expedited visa processing (especially of SIV and P1/p2 visas), and countries that will take Afghan refugees

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

@USAmbUN

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All Afghan nationals and international citizens who wish to depart must be allowed to do so safely. The U.S. promises to be generous in resettling Afghans in our country. I am heartened by the pledges we’ve seen from other nations to do the same. We all need to do more.

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Women & girls inside #Afghanistan are sending us messages every hour about the pain, sadness & anger they are feeling about the Taliban shutting down universities. Share this thread. #AllOrNone @SR_Afghanistan @SE_AfghanWGH @AryanaSayeed @bsarwary @HillaryClinton @FLOTUS

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Join us for the introductory public session of The Pathways to Progress: Conference on the Current State of Education for Afghan Women and Girls! Tuesday - September 12th, 2023 7am Pacific Time/ 10am Eastern Time/ 6:30pm Kabul time Register here:

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Elegant?? I care more about finding out how much education these police officers have and what kind of training they have received to properly interact with urban populations including women and children.

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@HalimaKazem

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Taliban still actively hunting down and searching homes of former Afghan government officials. The stories are harrowing but we are not getting them in Afghan or western media. I am tracking these cases as well as other human rights abuses. We need evidence and accountability.

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@HalimaKazem

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Afghan women and girls are caught between Taliban abuses and actions by the international community that are pushing Afghans further into desperation every day. New report on Ghazni. Read our full report. 👇

Afghanistan: Taliban Deprive Women of Livelihoods, Identity

Taliban rule has had a devastating impact on Afghan women and girls, new research shows.

www.hrw.org

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@HalimaKazem

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@elonmusk This is not amusing. Real lives are at stake. Who at Twitter are vetting and monitoring Taliban accounts, especially in Dari and Pashto? There are real consequences to not shutting down accounts that are perpetuating violence, hate and propaganda about the Taliban.

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Biden administration is contemplating actions to punish the #Taliban for its treatment of women & girls, potentially including cuts to American aid. Strong reporting from @missy_ryan from WP. I am quoted in the story as a member of @TogetherStron12

As Taliban erases women’s rights, Biden encounters limits of U.S. sway

The Biden administration is struggling to exert U.S. influence over the Taliban more than a year after America’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@HalimaKazem

3 years

If you want to learn how to help #Afghans in #Afghanistan and those arriving in the United States, please join us for this virtual conference next Friday 9/10 from 12-2pm PST. Please share with your networks

Afghanistan Coordination Conference

The Afghanistan Coordination Conference will connect the public to people and organizations working on evacuation, aid, and resettlement.

www.eventbrite.com

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@HalimaKazem

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These brave Afghan women are risking their lives to protest the Taliban's misogynistic policies. Many women protestors have been kidnapped, tortured, and worse after they have taken part in protests. They want the world to know what is happening. @Zabehulah_M33 @suhailshaheen1

Ejaz Saheba Malikzada

@EjazMalikzada

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Kabul women protesters: the Taliban have taken our videos & close-shot pictures. The world must know this - we don't know what will happen next.

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@HalimaKazem

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As an Afghan woman & a mother of 2 girls, I'm overcome with emotion seeing this photo of 2 girls in Afghanistan crying & saying goodbye as they finish the 6th grade. The Taliban will not allow these girls to continue their education. Why are world powers silent about this grave…

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Such incredible work by @minasharif . Please donate to her sewing circle in Kabul. I've known Mina jan for almost 17 years and completely trust that when I give to her fundraisers, the money goes directly to Afghans.

Durkhanum Sewing Circle of Kabul

Durkhanum (meaning strong woman) is the perfect description of our sisters in Afghanistan. Women who are breadwinners, mostly widows, were already living an intensely difficult life in Afghanistan....

chuffed.org

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occasional glimmers of hope. These narratives are lacking on social media because afghans are labeled as Taliban sympathizers if they accept or normalize life under TB in any way. The Afghan narrative is being dominated by those who are in exile or those who want...

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Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new process that will enable Afghan nationals to renew their parole and continue to live and work in the United States. The new process will be at no cost, and will provide for a two-year renewal of parole for…

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Join us tomorrow, 5/16 @ 3:30pm PT for this important discussion on Afghan SIV applicants still stuck in Afghanistan and in danger of being killed by the Taliban. Featuring @saf_rauf from @HumanFirstAfg , @jeff_phaneuf @n1leftbehind , SIV applicants

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Together Stronger calls on @OIC_OCI & the International Islamic Fiqh Academy @iifa_aifi to immediately launch a global campaign to unite scholars & religious authorities in the Islamic world against the Taliban's ban on women & girls' education. Issue the fatwah! Read the letter

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@HalimaKazem

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Constantly hearing from friends and colleagues in Afghanistan's provinces and how they are building small resistance movements against Taliban policies. Makes me so scared for them but gives me hope that things will be different from the mid 1990s.

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@HalimaKazem

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I interviewed a woman in Herat recently on the phone and she said she liked my "Farsi Kabuli" accent and it reminded her of her grandfather. For some reason, this brought tears to my eyes. You can force me out of Kabul but can't take the generations of #Kabuli out of me 🇦🇫❤️

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@HalimaKazem

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Afghan Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Massoud Hosseini will be giving a lecture/ presentation tomorrow 11/16 @12pm PT during the SJSU Hearst Award ceremony. We will see @Massoud151 new photographs leading up to the Taliban takeover in August.

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If you couldn't join us this morning to learn about the Afghan Adjustment Act, here is the recording. important & new info shared by our speakers. The next 2 weeks are very important for AAA Thank you @saf_rauf @SpojmieNasiri @ZabihUllahR @mattczeller

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Many Afghans in AF are paying smugglers to get them out. A woman called me asking for 10K Afghanis ($110) to pay for passports for her and her daughter. The ripple effects of the AF humanitarian crisis will be felt all over the world, especially in Europe, soon.

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Harvesting The Sun: Afghan Man Builds Parabolic Solar Stoves By Hand. We should support this brilliant man!

Harvesting The Sun: Afghan Man Builds Parabolic Solar Stoves By Hand

A Kabul blacksmith is building solar heaters as an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to using fuels in poverty-stricken Afghanistan.

www.rferl.org

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@HalimaKazem

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#FreeProfessorJalal - He is a public intellectual and the Taliban should release him. Jalal is a patriot - fought occupation and oppression for many decades and was in prison with my father at Pul-e-charkhi in the late 1970s because he opposed the communist regime. @Zabehulah_M33

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A news anchor from Shamshad TV chokes up as he reads the news story about the Taliban banning women from universities. Probably thinking about the future of his sisters, nieces, or daughters. Taliban's ban will have negative effects on Afghan society as a whole. #LetHerLearn

Fazalrabi Shinwari🇦🇫

@Fshinwari1

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د هر افغان زړه دغسې له دردونو ډک دی؛ څوک یې د بیان سټېج لري، څوک نه. د شمشاد ویاند

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I was organizing some keepsakes and came across my press pass from March 1999 for an event to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. Yes, that was 24 years ago and we were fighting the same issue as today! I was a student reporter at my university paper then and attended an event…

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