Afghanistan's media representatives are appealing to the government to protect the rights of journalists who are facing a growing number of violent th (Besieged #Afghan media appeals to Karzai for protection http://t.co/tRvxOfZ4...)... 
Film Annex's Afghan Development Project allowed Francesco Rulli to collaborate with Citadel's Roya Mahboob to establish Film Annex Afghanistan (Film Annex Afghanistan - Fereshteh Forough - Afghan Citadel Software Company http://t.co/tjktrDbi...)... Less than 1 wk!MT @hellovancity: Story of Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan world premiere at @doxafestival May 10 7pm http://t.co/YM7kVIN2... 
The first media directory for Afghanistan has just been released. 
A new literary network revives an old Pashtun tradition. Afghan film makers, artists and musicians gathered together recently at a youth festival in Kabul. 
Afghanistan's first female film director talks to Jenny Kleeman about women's equality and her fears about the return of the Taliban (Saba Sahar first Afghan femal director n action star: 'Afghan women are capable of doing anything men do' http://t.co/9TTAOsqt... PublicServiceEurope.comFORUM: Will women's rights be sacrificed in Afghanistan?" - Mina Habib is a reporter in Afghanistan who writes for The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, a nonprofit organization that trains journalists in areas of conflict. 
Afghanistan has instructed female TV presenters to stop appearing without a head scarf and to wear less makeup, officials said, raising fears about creeping restrictions on the country's fledgling media.
In a letter distributed to media, the Ministry of Culture and Information said it had received complaints from members of parliament and families that female news presenters were not observing Islamic and cultural ethics.
"All female news presenters must avoid heavy make-up and wear a headscarf," Minister Sayed Makhdoom Rahin told Reuters by telephone, adding this applied to state and private TV stations.
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SHARBAT GULA, THE AFGHAN GIRL. Front cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Sharbat Gula (born ca. 1972) is an Afghan woman who was the subject of a famous photograph by journalist Steve ... 
It may be surprising to know that women in Afghanistan participated socially, politically and economically in the life of their societies before the Taliban came into power. ... 
Safer Mobile helps journalists and human rights activists use mobile technology more securely. Via helpingmedia 
The state of women in Afghanistan: Moving in the right direction, but with a long way to go (RT @GlobalRights: @GABblog insightful opinion piece "Afghan Women: Symbol Of Past Oppression, Future Of Equal Rights" |
The filmmaker Brishkay Ahmed discusses her film Story of Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan, which premieres Thursday, 10 May 2012 at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, with Joseph Planta. 
WAND, in partnership with Community Supported Film, is proud to present… 
Afghan journalists who continue their work risking their lives. Fawzia Koofi, a member of Afghanistan's parliament and the first female Deputy Speaker of the country, has experienced much in her short life. In her book Letters to my Daughters, which was co-written by BBC journalist, Nadene Ghouri, Koofi ... Aziz, on press freedom and the plight of women in Afghanistan. Seh Noktah - Three Dots - Afghan Movie Trailer Promo Teaser 3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOuB-prVpbQ Movie title: Seh Noktah Movie title (English): Thre... 
Annual Meeting of Afghan Independent Journalists' Association and National Media Summit http://t.co/7IRrGG7n... http://awwproject.org/2012/03/help-us-build-but-stop-the-killing/ Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. The culture war over Afghan women is heating up. Just over ten years have passed since the international community overthrew the notoriously misogynist Taliban regime, and Afghan women are again at the center of a ... 
That is, what we learn about Afghan women is one-dimensional—it flattens and diminishes the reality and experiences of the women. Journalism should complicate and challenge our perceptions and pre-conceived notions of ... 
Films by Afghan Women Tell Real Stories of Struggle, Patience, and Hope http://t.co/ZDVnPycd... 
Media coverage of tortured Afghan girl: Did journalists do more harm? - http://t.co/nPOpvtDM... |
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