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 ...

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.

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 ...

This narrative has been published in partnership with the Guardian. My name is Fatema*. I am 32 years old and a mother of six children: four sons and two daughters. Every day, my sister Marzia and I ...

This narrative has been published in partnership with the Guardian. Coffee is my therapy. Every morning, as soon as I get out of bed, the first thing I reach for is a cup of coffee. At the same time, ...

Rada Akbar is one of the most distinguished figures in contemporary art. The prominent Afghan visual artist, photographer, and cultural activist turns art into a tool for storytelling, awareness, and ...

Sabza with the her daughter, who was promised to her future husband when she was three, to repay a debt of about £3,570. Photograph: Neda Noran and Atousa Azar for Zan Times This report has been ...

As an Afghan scientist and educator, I never imagined that the age at which many girls experience their first menstrual cycle would one day coincide with the age at which their country would decide ...

To buy a ticket for my trip to Kabul, my sister and I went to the office of a bus company. The staff told me that because I did not have a mahram (male guardian) with me, they could not sell me a ...

Munira, a 26-year-old transgender woman, has been living in a Pakistani shelter for LGBTQ+ people since 2023. She says that Germany rejected her asylum case without giving a credible reason in January ...

This report has been published in partnership with the Guardian. The Taliban have ordered a sweeping ban on the use of smartphones by government officials – in what some analysts say could foreshadow ...