Tuesday, March 19, 2002

All good things come to an end. It looks like the news wires that published many of these pictures have removed them. If you want to see the newest pictures from AP and Reuters, click here.

Monday, March 18, 2002

WAITING FOR THE FALL OF THE TALIBAN IN KANDAHAR

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Photographs for TIME by Majid
Young girls study in an illegal school. One positive spin-off of the bombing campaign is that Kandahar residents have taken advantage of the Taliban's distraction to secretly defy its injunction against educating girls.

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

DARING TO SHOW THEIR FACES
Afghan women shed their burqas
A group of women in the Afghan capital, Kabul, have thrown off their burqas to demand respect for women's rights after the fall of the Taleban.
GIRLS IN SCHOOL UNDER THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE
Girls´ school in Khoja Mahauddin in Northern Afghanistan. The yellow bags in front of them used to contain US ermegency aid. Now they´re used as schoolbags.(Hans-Jaap Melissen, Radio Netherlands)
NOTE: This was taken in Northern Alliance territory October 23, but it's interesting to see the yellow bags being put to such good use.

Sunday, November 25, 2001

HAVE LES MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES SEEN THIS?
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ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP
A young Afghan child carries some U.S. humanitarian aid packages near the village of Khawaja Bahuddine in northeast Afghanistan.

Saturday, November 24, 2001

SWEET LIBERTY
Reuters Photo

An Afghan Dervish cries as others pray in their prayer house in Kabul, during the Friday gathering November 23, 2001. Swaying gently at first, chanting in monotones, the roomful of Dervishes slowly builds up to a frenzy of prayers forbidden to them for the past five years of the strict Taliban rule. Dervishes are Sufis, a spiritual offshoot of Islam, who believe their bodies open up to the energy of God when they are in prayer. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
SHAVING-- ANOTHER THING WE TAKE FOR GRANTED
Associated Press
Afghan men stand by a bin of razors in a market in Herat, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001. Shaving was forbidden under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, but now some men have chosen to use razors. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
KORANIC SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Associated Press
Afghan students gather in Quranic school in Jame'e Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001. Children go to Quranic schools in Afghanistan when schools are closed from Nov. until January for their winter holiday. Under Taliban rule girls were previously banned from going to school. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
BALLOONS ARE BACK
Associated Press
Afghan balloon seller Mohammed Agha,18, pictured with a fellow vendor in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, November 21, 2001. Agha says if he caught the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden he figures, $25 million would buy 100 party balloons at a wholesale price of two cents each. A lot of Afghans are tempted when they learn of President Bush's bounty on the head of bin Laden, but few have even a vague notion of how much that is worth. (AP photo/Brennan Linsley)
BEYOND WAHABISM
Reuters Photo
Kneeling on the carpeted floor of their prayer house in Kabul, Afghan Dervishes pray during their Friday gathering November 23, 2001. Swaying gently at first, chanting in monotones, the roomful of Dervishes slowly builds up to a frenzy of prayers forbidden to them for the past five years of the strict Taliban rule. Dervishes are Sufis, a spiritual offshoot of Islam, who believe their bodies open up to the energy of God when they are in prayer. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
HOW DO THESE WOMEN LIST THE LAST FIVE YEARS ON THEIR RESUMES?
Associated Press
Fakria Sarwar waits her turn to audition for a news readers position at Radio Afghanistan in Kabul on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001. Women in the Afghan capital are heading back to work after five long years banned from jobs and education.(AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)
BACK TO WORK
Associated Press
From left: Bibi, Farhanda, Noori Jan and Shazia, a group of Afghan doctors, walk through a corridor of the Rabia Balkhi hospital for women in Kabul on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)
OUT OF THE WAITING ROOM, INTO THE OFFICE
Associated Press
Farhanda and Noori Jan, both Afghan doctors, look at a patient's x-ray at the Rabia Balkhi hospital for women on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001. At the hospital, female doctors were forbidden to work alongside their male colleagues during the Taliban regime. Starting Saturday, that rule is dead, by order of the new health ministry. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)
FREE TO BE LIKE MOHAMMED ALI
Reuters Photo
An Afghan boxer exercises under the poster of the legendary champion Mohammed Ali in a small boxing club in suburbs of Kabul November 24, 2001. Under the strict Taliban rule, boxing was forbiden as "anti-Islamic" and clubs were working behind closed doors. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
FREE TO GIVE AID
Associated Press
Afghan women attend a training session held by United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) country director Jerad Wendii at the UNWFP's Kabul headquarters Saturday, Nov. 24, 2001. The UNWFP is training Afghan women to distribute food to refugees around the country. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)

Wednesday, November 21, 2001

SOME DO, SOME DON'T, NOW
Associated Press
Two Afghan women with their faces showing walk passing women wearing Burqas in a market in Kabul Wednesday Nov. 21, 2001. Under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islam, women were not allowed to walk the streets with faces uncovered and without a male family member accompanying them. (AP Photo/Amir Shah)
HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO TEACH AGAIN
Associated Press
Afghan teachers and social workers remove their burqas as they leave a meeting called by Ismail Khan, the liberal warlord who took over Herat after the fall of the Taliban, at the former royal palace of Zaher Shah, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2001, in Herat, Afghanistan. The meeting was held to discuss education. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
FREE TO CHOOSE
Associated Press
Two Afghan women, their faces showing, walk behind a woman wearing a Burqa in the streets of Kabul Wednesday Nov. 21, 2001. Under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islam women were not allowed to walk the streets with faces uncovered and without a male family member accompanying them. (AP Photo/Amir Shah)
NAIL POLISH IS BACK IN KABUL
Reuters Photo
An Afghan woman begs for money in an eastern Kabul street November 21, 2001. A week after Northern Alliance took control of the Afghan capital and life is back to its chaotic normality. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
NOTE: Under the Taliban, these fingernails could have been pulled off because of the illegal polish and unbelievably there were only a certain number of days when widows were allowed to beg.
FREEDOM IS BEAUTIFUL
Associated Press
An Afghan widow smiles after lifting her burqa in the United Nations World Food Program bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001. About 350 widows, identified as the most vulnerable group in the city, received two cans of oil and two sacks of wheat from the United States Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
ARE THE OTHERS SMILING, TOO?
Associated Press
An Afghan widow, who chose to lift her burqa, smiles at the United Nations World Food Program bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001. About 350 widows, identified as the most vulnerable group in the city, received two cans of oil and two sacks of wheat from the United States Agency for International Development. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

Tuesday, November 20, 2001

AT THE MARCH (NYT)

Hundreds of women gathered in Kabul today to demand their rights. The Northern Alliance said they had been given no warning and postponed the march for a week. (AFP)
OFF WITH HER BURQA!
Reuters Photo
An Afghan woman removes her burka as "The General Coalition of Women" group organized a meeting of Afghan women to demonstrate for their rights November 20, 2001. Under its strict interpretation of Islam, the Taliban ordered women to hide behind head-to-toe burkas, also forbidden to work or study. [REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis]