

Gali Weiss
- Sep 12, 2021
At the Lecture Hall
I received the following account from U, retelling what was circulating on social media recently in Afghanistan. "Yesterday, a number of...


Gali Weiss
- Sep 10, 2021
Music Silenced
A few days ago I saw photos on Facebook of instruments destroyed by the Taliban at the National Institute of Music, Kabul. I immediately...


Gali Weiss
- Sep 10, 2021
The Sitar Player: Inspiring the Arts and Humanity
Donna Nassery, Afghan Girl Playing the Sitar 2021, oil painting, Paris Donna Nassery found H through Facebook. She was inspired to create...


Gali Weiss
- Sep 7, 2021
return of University Classes
This photograph has been circulating in media sources worldwide. It shows Avicenna University, a private university in Kabul, with a...


Gali Weiss
- Sep 7, 2021
In Memory of Banu Negar
My friend U is still in hiding. She has moved with her family at least five times in the past month, fearful of being targeted for her...


Gali Weiss
- Sep 1, 2021
What's On? TV in Afghanistan
Life in Kabul is very limited now. My friend and her family are inside all the time, the only safe place for them to be. My friend's...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 26, 2021
Airport Gate, Lost Crowds
These photos are not ones from news media sources. They're from my friend who was waiting with her family to enter the gate/door to the...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 21, 2021
Traces of a Past
As stated in the previous post, people in Afghanistan are now deleting their social media accounts and posts for fear of being...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 20, 2021
Voicing More Than Words
In our February opening of the exhibition of Making Marks: Australia and Afghanistan, I met an Afghan woman, T, who is a permanent...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 19, 2021
Afghanistan - Land of Endless War | DW Documentary
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L7e6tejlTNw This film gives an understanding of Afghanistan's history and women's experiences and...
Gali Weiss
- Aug 18, 2021
Women on the Streets of Kabul
My friend U worries about her family's future, but also about women who are disadvantaged. "On 15 August 2021, when people heard that the...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 17, 2021
Afghanistan is a Burning Hell for Women
The images below are surely a definition of Hell – the miracle of birth into the world of an extreme-violent present and a questionable...

Gali Weiss
- Aug 17, 2021
Childhood – Fears of a Mother
A few nights ago on ABC News a young woman spoke of how happy her childhood was (that was within the past 20 years) and her fears for her...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 16, 2021
Latest conversations
Last night I was back and forth texting with my friend U. I know the same is happening to others with contacts in Afghanistan. It was so...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 16, 2021
It Hurts to see My Nation Hurting
From my own experience, I recognise what living in diaspora, away from one's homeland, can bring up in times of crisis. One is torn with...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 15, 2021
Women's Activist Killed by Taliban
This image is of a woman activist who was killed by the Taliban on the highway between Badghis and Herat in the west of Afghanistan. The...
Gali Weiss
- Aug 15, 2021
An Afghan Women's Activist Responds
I had put out a call for women's accounts of their experiences through my various networks. As chance would have it, I was able to...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 14, 2021
These are some of the Taliban's clarified rules in the areas under their control
The images on this blog have mostly been taken from published local Afghan Facebook pages that my friend U sends. Some are so graphic and...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 13, 2021
Living under the rule of a dark Taliban group with laws of the stone age era
Last night I received the following article from my friend U* (*name withheld). Communication is not always immediate due to her...


Gali Weiss
- Aug 10, 2021
IDP - Internally Displaced People
“Most of the people who had some opportunity already have left the country and here still dozens of families lost their every thing and...