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'Complex' world of Taliban home: Wife embraces Taliban 'brothers', asserts women's right to freedom
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Award-winning photojournalist Elise Blanchard offers a nuanced view of life inside a Taliban household in her new book, moving beyond the portrayal of Afghan women solely as passive victims. Her reporting from the drought-affected Badghis province also examines how environmental pressures contribute to the prevalence of child marriage in the region.
WHY IT MATTERS
This account provides rare, ground-level insight into the complex intersection of Taliban domestic life, climate-driven poverty, and the realities faced by women in modern Afghanistan.
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Elise Blanchard, award-winning photojournalist and author of “Dans la Maison d’un Taliban” (In the House of a Taliban). Blanchard’s work challenges narratives that reduce Afghan women to passive victims. Drawing on rare access to a Taliban household, she describes a social landscape shaped by profound contradictions. In drought-stricken Badghis province, Blanchard traces child marriage through a chain of material pressures exacerbated by climate change. Gendered...
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