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'They Do Not Teach Us What We Need': Inside the Expansion of Religious Schools for Girls Across Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan — For many girls in Afghanistan, the once-expansive horizon of education has narrowed to a stark choice: religious instruction or nothing at all. This reality, driven by the Taliban ...
UNESCO

New report warns that Afghanistan’s education crisis threatens the future of an entire generation

UNESCO and UNICEF reiterate their call for the immediate and unconditional reopening of schools and universities to Afghan girls and women, alongside expanded inclusive learning opportunities and ...
PBS

Activists secretly educating Afghan children amid Taliban crackdown

To discuss how the Taliban regime has impacted education, Amna Nawaz spoke with Afghan education activist Pashtana Durrani. She is the founder of Learn Afghanistan, a grassroots group working to ...
Time

Retrograde Lessons: Learning from Afghanistan’s Logistical Nightmare

In dismantling and repatriating the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, guidelines for the next war – or humanitarian catastrophe In a scene from the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Prof.
The National Interest

Learning the Lessons of Afghanistan

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (New York: Knopf, 2012), 384 pp., $27.95. In the 1950s, an American engineering company began work in Afghanistan to ...
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Afghanistan shows what investing in women’s education – or divesting – can do to an economy

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...