Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

The burqa persists even in the oppressive heat of Afghan summers. I, like most, expected the end of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan would also see the end of the burqa. But the full-body covering ...

The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days — cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the full-body ...

Afghan burqa-clad women walk down a road in Kandahar on August 28, 2024. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images. Elsewhere, an Afghan woman now living in Norway, Hoda Khamosh, echoed the sentiment.

Today, women's clothing in Afghanistan is far from the stereotypical blue burqa. Fashion designers are quietly working to give Afghan women more options when it comes to the way they dress. Rahiba ...

Afghan women were openly defying the Taliban’s new order to cover all but their eyes and hands in Kabul over the weekend. Analysts say the burqa order reflects the divide between the Taliban ...

“The burqa is the culture of Afghanistan. With or without it, I am Khatol,” she says. When Khatol returns home from work, she sometimes takes a nap on her bed, still wearing her uniform.

A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television's answer to "America's Next Top Model" is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa.

1 of 5 | A burqa-clad woman and her child wait behind fences in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 17, 2009. The Taliban has ruled that all women in the country must now wear the full-body covering.

For one Afghan activist, her burqa is the shield allowing her to denounce corruption, Trump . VATICAN CITY (RNS) – In a school in downtown Rome on Friday (Dec. 6), the ...

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 ...

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.