Médine - De Panjshir à Harlem
Even if you don’t get it because it’s in french, you should watch it. It compares the life of Malcom X and Massoud.
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Razia Jan and her team provide free education to hundreds of girls in rural Afghanistan.
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"The Afghan women were used in a rhetoric of silence. As we all know, their silence was not their choice; it was a result of local as well as global power relations. Therefore, it was easy for Western women to portray themselves as the ones who gave Afghan women a voice."
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Berit von der Lippe - When Feminism Legitimizes War.
Researcher Berit von der Lippe in Rhetoric and Citizenship – Public Deliberation, writes that the role of Afghan women in the war rhetoric is one example of how people in power use the rhetoric of silence.
For me as a feminist it was a paradox to see howan ideology that has criticized the universal positions and demanded women’s right to self-representation was used to legitimize the decision to go to war. Most people know that this ultimately has to do with military strategy. It gives UN Resolution 1325 and its good intentions a precarious basis on which to build peace and security.
I’ve always questioned the loopholes within Western feminist rhetoric for ‘liberating’ women in Asia and beyond. Among those words, I will never forget the slogans for supporting the invasion of Afghanistan by women living in USA: “We are us and we are them.” Except they weren’t. They could never be in the same situation as the Afghan or even Iraqi women were and are. And it’s amazing, isn’t it? That the women USA regime(s) claimed to empower were never given a complete, whole, equal opportunity to speak for themselves and explain their wants and needs at proper length.
(via mehreenkasana)
Crown Featuring Flowering Trees
1st century A.D.
Tillia Tepe, Tomb VI
AfghanistanThis royal crown was excavated from Tomb VI in Tillia Tepe, Afghanistan. It belonged to a nomadic woman and can be dismantled for transport.
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The government and the people of Afghanistan commemorated the late resistance leader and the national hero of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud on Saturday September 8, 2012.
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Afghanistan Digital Library
The Afghanistan Digital Library will retrieve and restore works published in Afghanistan between 1870 and 1930; the long-term objective is to collect, catalogue, digitize and provide access to as many of this period’s publications as possible.
michelleistumblin-deactivated20 asked: happy eid :) !
Thank you! Eid Mubarak to you as well :)
