Morgan Meaker, Wired, WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women’s Soccer, 2 Aug 2023 “WhatsApp’s 30-minute film shows members of Afghanistan’s under-15 women’s soccer team exchanging panicked messages over...
UK MP Tobias Ellwood’s video on Afghanistan was not well-received in the UK (but was reposted by the Taliban). Here’s a summary: Roh Yakobi, KabulNow, Opinion: Normalising the Taliban...
BBC News, Jennifer Lawrence Bread and Roses documentary gives Afghan women a voice “”This documentary was born out of emotion and necessity,” says (Jennifer) Lawrence, who describes feeling helpless...
Eliza Mackintosh, Ehsan Popalzai, Antonio Jarne and Lou Robinson, CNN, ‘No one feels safe’: The Taliban promised to provide security to Afghans. New data shows threat from ISIS is growing “In the nearly...
AFP/Guardian, Founder of Afghan girls’ school project arrested in Kabul, 28 March 2023 “Matiullah Wesa, head of Pen Path, beaten and arrested outside a mosque after prayers.” This has...
Matthew Gault, Motherboard, Vice, Taliban Bureaucrats Hate Working Online All Day, ‘Miss the Days of Jihad’ ““I sometimes miss the jihad life for all the good things it had,”...
Ali M. Latifi, Wired, The Taliban Can’t Stop TikTok “TikTok’s rise in Afghanistan is a recent phenomenon in a marketplace that has mainly been dominated by Facebook, which has...