Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...
Lily Cole posted two pictures of herself wearing a blue burqa to Instagram. Critics slammed the photos as culturally insensitive and ill-timed as the Taliban retook Kabul. Cole apologized and said she ...
When a woman wearing a blue burqa showed up near the Kabul airport three days after the Taliban fled the capital last November, no one gave her a second glance. But heads turned when she marched up to ...
Model Lily Cole has apologised for wearing a burka in a post to promote her new book on Instagram. Cole, 33, said she “had not read the news” when she posted pictures of herself wearing a blue burka ...
Women wearing a burqa wait for free bread in front of a bakery in Kabul. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP) Afghanistan’s Taliban government has ordered women to cover their faces in public in a return to a ...
The Taliban has ordered Afghan women to wear burkas in public. The burka, which covers the wearer from head to toe and leaves only a person’s eyes exposed, became ...
Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.
Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...