In ‘Cinema Jazireh,’ a Woman Dresses up as a Man in Taliban Afghanistan in Search of Her Son, Hope

In ‘Cinema Jazireh,’ a Woman Dresses up as a Man in Taliban Afghanistan in Search of Her Son, Hope

Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban is the setting of Cinema Jazireh, Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural’s second feature. She wrote, directed, and also edited, together with Bünyamin Bayansal, the film, which is world premiering in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Thursday evening….

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#Border? Inflation? Joe Biden passes the buck as problems multiply

#Border? Inflation? Joe Biden passes the buck as problems multiply

“Border? Inflation? Joe Biden passes the buck as problems multiply” The buck isn’t stopping with President Biden. As his domestic and international problems multiply, he has found boogeymen to blame everywhere — except the White House. There’s Afghanistan, where a botched withdrawal left Americans stranded, a terrorist attack at Kabul airport killed 13 Americans, and…

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#Taliban enforcing face-cover order for female TV anchors

#Taliban enforcing face-cover order for female TV anchors

“Taliban enforcing face-cover order for female TV anchors” ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Sunday began enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move is part of a hard-line shift drawing condemnation from rights activists. After the order was announced Thursday, only a…

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#The real war on women is in A’stan

#The real war on women is in A’stan

“The real war on women is in A’stan” Where is there a war being waged on women? If you’re following the liberal media narrative, the general assumption is that the main threat to American women comes from five conservatives on the Supreme Court. But though the news has been largely buried amid the blitz of…

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#Afghanistan floods, heavy rain kill 22, destroy hundreds of homes

#Afghanistan floods, heavy rain kill 22, destroy hundreds of homes

“Afghanistan floods, heavy rain kill 22, destroy hundreds of homes” KABUL – Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, a disaster management official said on Thursday. The Taliban government, struggling to cope with the disaster that has affected more than a…

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#At least six killed in blasts at Kabul high school

#At least six killed in blasts at Kabul high school

“At least six killed in blasts at Kabul high school” KABUL, April 19 – Three explosions at a high school in western Kabul killed at least six people and injured a number of students, Afghan security and health officials said. Many residents in the neighborhood belong to the Shia Hazara community, an ethnic and religious…

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#How the world is legitimizing the Taliban

#How the world is legitimizing the Taliban

“#How the world is legitimizing the Taliban” Two very different viewpoints emerged from meetings between western officials and top leaders of the Taliban last week in Oslo, Norway. From the European and American perspective, the meetings were in no way a legitimization of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The repeated attempts to make that point…

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