Article #103195

Five years after the Taliban retook power, women inside the country explain how they have been silenced, while the Afghan journalist Zahra Joya asks why the world has looked away

In August 2021, the Afghan journalist Zahra Joya was in Kabul, where she and her family lived.

Over the previous 10 days, Joya had witnessed what would have once seemed impossible: Taliban militants advancing through Afghanistan at astonishing speed, taking control of her country province by province.