Hundreds of Afghans, most of them women, demonstrated in central Paris this week to mark the one-year anniversary of the Taliban’s seizure of power in Kabul, while the embassy of Afghanistan, staffed by diplomats appointed by a government that no longer exists, continues to operate.
Hundreds of Afghans, most of them women, demonstrated in central Paris this week to mark the one-year anniversary of the Taliban’s seizure of power in Kabul, while the embassy of Afghanistan, staffed by diplomats appointed by a government that no longer exists, continues to operate.
The Afghan-Iranian artist narrowly escaped from Kabul to Paris last August, as the Taliban took over. She talks about the terror of that time, why she still longs for home, and her work photographing Afghan women in exile