If you are fed up of experts and analysts holding forth on the lives of Afghan women and want to hear directly from those whose lives are at stake, read the book My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women. This book grew out of #WriteAfghanistan, a literary project initiated by Untold Narratives that describes …
No part of life in the last couple of years has remained unmarked by the various global disasters surrounding us: a pandemic, economic crisis, wars. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird, an anthology of short fiction by marginalized Afghan women, had to survive the pandemic and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid-2021. The project by Untold Narratives, …