Everyday Afghanistan

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[Kern Hendricks @kernhendricks]

Hi editors👋.

I'm back in Afghanistan for a while. Photos/features/video. I have time for a few more commissions, so please feel free to reach out. There's no shortage of important stories to cover here, and I've got plenty of ideas. Let's work together.

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Photo by @jawad_nabizada: “Eid prayer at Rawza Mosque, Imam Ali pilgrimage.”

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Photo & text by Oriane Zerah @oriane_zerah_photo, @everydayafg: "After buying all the Gul e Lala I found on my way to Parwan, I asked Abdul Akim, 54, to pose, a bouquet in his hand. Spring is his favorite season because everything opens up.

"Flowers are flowers! It's someth…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

Yesterday a small group of women—and a few men—marched in protest of the Taliban’s failure to reopen girls’ public high schools. Even though the march was brief, it’s hard to overstate how brave these women are for turning out in public defiance of the Taliban’s orders. Now,…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

Taliban banned school girls from 7th grade up. Now, female students above the sixth grade will not be able to attend school.

The right to education is universal, yet girls continue to suffer severe disadvantage and exclusion within education systems in many countries such a…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

The T,aliban ordered closure of all secondary schools for girls, just hours after school had reopened for the first time since last August, when the T,aliban seized power in the country for a second time.

"Yes, it's true," T,aliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani confirmed u…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

When the Taliban took control of the country, secondary schoolgirls were not allowed to continue their education.

There have been many dates given when “announcements” about the future of girls' education would be made.

But since August, across most of the country, only b…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

« Yes, it's true ». It is with these words that the Taliban confirmed today that girls will no longer have access to education in colleges and high schools in Afghanistan. This decision comes on March 23, first day of school in colleges and high schools in the country since …

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

The Taliban aka IEA (mainly comprised of Pashtun fundamentalists) have in Afghanistan announced that girls’ high schools will be CLOSED, hours after they reopened for the first time in nearly seven months.

Now, female students above the sixth grade will not be able to atten…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

The Taliban government has reversed an earlier decision to allow Afghan girls to return to school, saying no decision has yet been made on their uniforms. #Herat, #Afghanistan.

Photo & words by Morteza Samadi @morteza_3amadi

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These are bright, talented girls in Behsud district of Nangarhar. Many come from families with simple means, not much money, but their families still insisted on sending them to school because they wanted their daughters and sons to be educated. Afghans know the value of edu…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

Portrait of an Afghan school girl in #Badakhshan, #Afghanistan. After more than seven months of overwhelming waiting, the door to the Afghan schools for girls in the country remained closed again for an uncertain time. As per the official announcement of the IEA authorities …

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

Today is World Water Access Day 2022, and concerns over shortage of groundwater and drinking water in Afghanistan are at its climax.

Years of war and instability have affected the Afghan water sector. While the country has a relatively favorable water endowment and enjoys a…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

Some Nowruz scenes from around Sakhi Shrine today. Certainly quieter than previous years, but plenty of families still turned out to celebrate, laugh, and enjoy each others company, despite the uncertain times ahead. #Afghanistan #Kabul

Photo by Kern Hendricks @kernhendric…

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Photo by: @foroughalaei, @everydaymiddleeast:

“Happy Nowruz. نوروز مبارک
Haft-seen is an arrangement of seven symbolic items whose names start with the letter "س" (pronounced as "seen"), the 15th letter in the Persian alphabet; "haft" is Persian for "seven".It is tradition…

[Everyday Afghanistan @everydayafg]

The new year is already here and we are wishing you a happy one. Nowruz mubarak.

Afghanistan greets a new year under different circumstances, however it is not an entirely unfamiliar scenario, the country has seen through worse when it comes to uncertainty over its future. …

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A Wakhi girl up in the Little Pamir, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.

Photo by Bruno @bs_travelphotography.

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