Historic Win! 🥉 Zakia Khudadadi wins the first-ever Paralympic medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team with a bronze in Taekwondo! 📷Getty Images #Paralympics #Paris2024

The Taliban banned radio-based education programs in two provinces this month. They don’t even want women and girls to learn in their homes. I would not be surprised if they announce a national radio ban soon.

.Sara Wahedi’s mum throws the best #Afghan dinner parties! 🇦🇫🎉

My challenge for you today. Reach out to someone you disagree with. Have a productive conversation. Try to understand their feelings and emotions. Have empathy. Be human.

For The New Arab, I write that the recent Taliban decrees represent one of the most severe restrictions on women’s freedoms in modern history. And it will get worse. The world must act by making sweeping changes to asylum processes for Afghan women and girls:

Billions of dollars were invested in the next generation of Afghan women. Now, with the systematic erasure of Afghan women underway, the doors of refuge must open wide, writes Sara Wahedi The Taliban haven’t changed — open borders for Afghan women now! newarab.com/opinion/taliba…

Just met a group of sweet elderly Afghan women at a dinner and when I told them I was single, they basically said their goodbyes with a 'Get well soon,' as if I were on my deathbed.. lol.