{"id":6833,"date":"2016-04-07T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perspektivet.no\/en\/?post_type=utstillinger&p=6833"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:23:33","slug":"veiled-rebellion-women-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"bc_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/perspektivet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/veiled-rebellion-women-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Veiled Rebellion – Women in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lynsey Addario made her first trip to Afghanistan in May of 2000 to document the lives of women living under the oppression of the Taliban. She returned to Afghanistan two more times before the fall of the Taliban in November 2001. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In those days, women were virtually invisible, and the streets were silent: music and entertainment was banned under Sharia law, electricity was scarce, and contact with the outside world was almost non-existent. The only women on the streets were beggars\u2014usually widows or wives of disabled men, begging for money to support their families.  Most educated women in the cities spent their days squirreled away behind closed doors in family compounds, caring for their children, while rural women continued to work in the fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On many Fridays, the Taliban performed public executions at the sports stadium\u2014the same stadium in which today, young men and women train in boxing, karate, and soccer, and now hosts political and social gatherings for men and women, alike.<\/p>\n\n\n