Afghan women turn to art
Aunohita Mojumdar; 3/6/08
On a dusty road in a middle class neighbourhood in west Kabul, an unassuming house looks almost as nondescript as any other except for the simple board declaring it is the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Afghanistan. It is here that a quiet revolution is taking place. For the first time in the country’s recent history, a group of young women are learning to express their experiences, sorrows and joys growing up in war-ravaged Afghanistan through art And they are producing remarkably sophisticated and eloquent work. The originality of their imagination is even more extraordinary in the context of Afghanistan’s tragic history of conflict and the violence which continues to be visited upon women living in this country.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AFF701AE-B489-4C60-AE66-2369809898D6.htm
Tags: Afghanistan, Art, Womens Rights