What Afghan Women Want You to Know
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The women of Afghanistan are elected officials, school teachers, actors, TV contest winners, ancient rug weavers, and whisperers of forbidden poetry. The Taliban are starting to put down their thumb. But these women want you to know they are more than the timid victim under a burqa.
Original Air Date: October 02, 2021
Guests:
Humaira Ghilzai — Eliza Griswold — Anna Badkhen — Rafia Zakaria
Interviews In This Hour:
What's the future of culture in Afghanistan? — For Afghan weavers, the world is a carpet — Generations of Afghan women sharing the landay — How Afghanistan became America's 'first feminist war'
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, it's Anne. |
| 0:06.0 | On today's episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we're looking into the lives of Afghan women. |
| 0:11.0 | Elected officials, school teachers, TV contest winners, rugweavers and secret poets. |
| 0:18.0 | Under the new Taliban government, their lives will be different, less visible, probably |
| 0:23.7 | less focal. |
| 0:24.7 | So what did they want us to know? |
| 0:27.9 | The entire media narrative is, oh, Afghan women, we left and therefore they are in terrible |
| 0:35.3 | trouble. |
| 0:36.6 | They couldn't possibly have a vision of women's rights |
| 0:41.1 | that exists independently of Americans. |
| 0:45.2 | Keep listening. Wisconsin Public Radio It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 1:15.9 | This time last year, women in Afghanistan could do a lot of things. |
| 1:23.4 | Teach, practice medicine or law, direct films, perform in public, even star on TV. In the past 20 years, one of the things that's been booming in Afghanistan is television. |
| 1:34.3 | One of the most popular TV shows is called Afghan Star and it's similar to American Idol. |
| 1:41.3 | Hello, Shabbat, Shabbaugh, to concert |
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| 1:47.0 | two finalists, |
| 1:48.0 | and the dovan of |
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