Culture and Literature

Photo Gallery – Human Rights Week 7-10 December 2014, Kabul

Kabul -Today, Armanshahr Foundation/OPEN ASIA announced the recipients of the 3rd International Simorgh Peace Prize awards. In the 3rd Festival, works of musicians in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iran were appreciated. The following artists are the recipients of the azure statute of Simorgh Peace Prize.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched the UNESCO World Library of Science (WLoS), a newly created, free online science education resource for a global community of users.

Armanshahr Foundation and Roya Film House cordially invite you for three days to the ancient Citadel of Herat for the 2nd Herat International Women’s Film Festival.*

This thesis looks into the depiction of women in Egyptian films during the 1950s and 60s and argues that the Nasser regime created a set of policies within “state feminism” in order to alter the image of women in Egypt. Such policies included women’s free access to higher education in 1957 and their integration and increased numbers into the work force.

Class dismissed at Kandahar Institute of Modern Studies, a rare place of learning for girls, as military withdrawal affects civilian projects

The sight of books is an irresistible invitation to pick them up, writes Dabashi

Over 180 people including staff and students of Kabul University, representatives of national and international organizations and government Ministries came together today for a panel discussion to mark an exhibition of Steve McCurry’s powerful photographs at ACKU.

For the past two years, Lorenzo Tugnoli and I have looked at the city of Kabul through the eyes of a number of artists. Their stories are told in The Little Book of Kabul, which we released in 500 copies.

Despite his enormous contributions to science,Albert Einstein was no reclusive genius, his ever-eager conversations and correspondence engaging such diverse partners as the Indian philosopher Tagore and a young South African girl who wanted to be a scientist.