Poems about the Taliban, the US, and husbands: the Afghan women who risked their lives for self-expression
“You won’t let me go to school. I won’t become a doctor. Remember this. One day, you will be sick.” The message to the Taliban, and to other male oppressers, delivered by an anonymous Afghan woman in a two-line, traditional poem called a landay, could not be clearer. Landays are written in couplets, date back thousands of years, and are certainly pre-Islamic. But in recent years Afghan women have...
18th August 2021
