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Sheema Kalbasi (Persian: شیما کلباسی; born November 20, 1972, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Danish-American poet and writer who addresses issues of feminism, war, refugees, human rights, and freedom of expression. She is also a filmmaker focusing on women's issues and activism for women's rights, minority rights, children's rights ...
This is a list of women writers who were born in Afghanistan or whose writings are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972), widely translated poet, human rights activist, living in the United States Mehrangiz Kar (born 1944), women's rights activist, essayist, author of Crossing the Red Line Persis Karim (born 1962), literature scholar, author, and professor; director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State ...
“Darkness” is the first word that comes to Zakia Khudadadi’s mind when she thinks back to the events which unfolded in her native Afghanistan on August 15, 2021.
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban.In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women. [4] Since the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban gradually imposed restrictions on women's freedom of movement, education, and employment.
She sought out a female Afghan filmmaker to document the lives of women as they attempted to resist a return to life under an oppressive rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Sheema Kalbasi, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی) Siavash Kasraie poet (سیاوش کسرایی) Simin Behbahani, poet (سیمین بهبهانی) Simin Daneshvar, writer (سیمین دانشور) Sipandi Samarkandi, Tajik bilingual poet; Sohrab Sepehri, poet and painter (سهراب سپهری) Sohrab Sepehri