Hamida* remembers the rhythm of her old life in Mashhad: mornings spent studying marketing and afternoons running a jewellery and handicrafts workshop she had built herself. “I trained others and ...

This narrative was told to Zan Times via phone: I am Hosina Hashimi, the wife of Qasim Hashimi, a journalist who has been missing in Pakistan for the past three months. I now live in Pakistan with my ...

حمیده در ایران به دنیا آمده و در آنجا بزرگ شده است. او می‌گوید که در مشهد احساس نمی‌کرده که یک مهاجر است، بلکه یک زن مستقل و کارآفرین بوده است.

I was a child when the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan. Yet some of what I witnessed on the streets of Kabul remains very clear to me. I saw women being beaten by Taliban members with cables. I saw ...

The last five years have been devastating for girls and women. Not only does education end in the sixth grade for all girls but their ability to work or even move around the country is increasingly ...

When I won a government scholarship to study in Pakistan, I didn’t tell my father. Previously, I’d once won a scholarship to Bangladesh but he didn’t let me go. This time, no matter what he said, I ...

اگست ۲۰۲۶ پنج سال از بازگشت طالبان به قدرت در افغانستان و پنج سال از زمانی می‌گذرد که من سفر خود را به‌عنوان حامی زنان افغانستان آغاز کردم.