Shabana was born and raised in Kabul. She grew up under the rule of the Taleban, when education was banned for women and like many other girls, she had to dress as...
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ViewParween Pazhwak is a prolific author and artist born in Kabul to the literary and political Pazhwak family in 1967. She attended Malalai High School and studied me...
ViewIn 1951, the brave voice of a woman made waves on Radio Kabul. She was the first woman in Afghanistan to sing on public radio and she came to be known as Merman Pa...
ViewKhalida Popalzai is an international football player and activist. Born in 1987 in Kabul, Khalida was taught how to play football by her mother, who was a physical...
ViewForough Farrokhzad was born in 1935 in Tehran, to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Baqer Farrokhzad and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar, Forough was the thir...
ViewAsma Jahangir was born into a prominent political family in Pakistan. Her father Malik Ghulam Jilani, was a civil servant who spent years under house arrest for pr...
ViewGawharshad Begum was a powerful Empress of the Timurid Dynasty who lives on as a symbol of women’s power in the region centuries later. Married to Emperor Shahrukh...
ViewRabia Balkhi is a semi-legendary figure known for being the first female poet in Persian literature. While very little of her poetry remains, her story of love, li...
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