In her new book she traces the tumultuous history of Afghanistan as it has been experienced at the Hotel InterContinental Kabul. The “InterCon”—the first luxury hotel in Afghanistan—opened in 1969. It ...
When the Inter-Con opened in 1969, Afghanistan was “unimaginably different from today”, said William Dalrymple in The ...
Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...
This follows earlier action by the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture, confiscating hundreds of books from libraries and bookshops in major cities like Kabul and Herat. The titles covered ...
KABUL: The Taliban’s chief spokesman has firmly rejected Donald Trump’s push to “take back” Bagram air base in Afghanistan.In ...
A total of 679 textbooks, including 140 written by women and 310 by Iranian authors or publishers, have been prohibited.
The Taliban denies giving haven to militants to attack Pakistan and accuses the Pakistani military of spreading ...
As the autumn semester begins in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education has informed public and private universities that, following a review by a committee of Taliban clerics, ...