Two Afghan women hold hands as they walk through a marketplace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) #
Women clad in burqas walk past a tree in Bagram, north of Kabul, on Jan. 3. Ahmad Masood/Reuters
Ba deli family.
farahuddin his wife, and farhad.
(via afghanistaninphotos)
Properly Covered in Afghanistan. by Hanifah Nikoor on Flickr.
Through the eyes of a burqa .
One time I went to the market and my face was covered, but I forgot and tried to eat a banana through the burka. It wasn’t terrible just because of the burka; we had a lot of terrible times. We weren’t allowed to go out, so at home I wrote some poems and articles to keep my mind busy, but I don’t know where to start about women’s problems in my country’
(right)Saliha, 28, journalist, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Kabul, Afghanistan &
( left) Basima, 16, Pol-i-Charki, Afghanistan
Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan
Women at a clinic wait for an appointment. Photo: Lorenzo Tugnoli
Afghan woman at kabul art exhibition.
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