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Untold Afghanistan

A multi-media series documenting the surprising lives of women carving out their own destiny in a war-torn nation.

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Zahra, a Hazara, at Dr. Zalmai Khan Ahmadzai's clinic in Kabul. She says she wants to get a nose job.
Untold Afghanistan
Changing your face to disguise your ethnicity? Maybe, for these Afghan women.
A nurse attends to a newborn at the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Untold Afghanistan
She saved a pregnant woman’s life. Now, she works to make childbirth safer for all Afghan women.
Samaneh Nasiri, a student at the American University of Afghanistan in her dorm room. Nasiri survived an attack on the school in 2016.
Untold Afghanistan
After surviving an attack on their school in Kabul, these students show that ‘education prevails’
Sahar Fetrat, an Afghan documentary filmmaker and activist.
Untold Afghanistan
This Afghan filmmaker got her start fighting street harassment with her camera
28-year-old Marzie Noori is a model in Afghanistan. She says at first, her family was against her decision to become a model. "They were so strict," she says, "but I have always considered one thing in my life and that's I will do whatever I like to do."
Untold Afghanistan
Today, women’s clothing in Afghanistan includes far more than the blue burqa