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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.

Zahra, a Hazara, at Dr. Zalmai Khan Ahmadzai's clinic in Kabul. She says she wants to get a nose job.

Changing your face to disguise your ethnicity? Maybe, for these Afghan women.

Untold Afghanistan

Wars leave behind scars. Emotional ones. Physical ones. And for years, in Afghanistan, the physical ones were the ones surgeons fixed. But in the past couple of years, there’s been a boom in cosmetic surgery.

A nurse attends to a newborn at the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.

She saved a pregnant woman’s life. Now, she works to make childbirth safer for all Afghan women.

Untold Afghanistan
Samaneh Nasiri, a student at the American University of Afghanistan in her dorm room. Nasiri survived an attack on the school in 2016.

After surviving an attack on their school in Kabul, these students show that ‘education prevails’

Untold Afghanistan
Sahar Fetrat, an Afghan documentary filmmaker and activist.

This Afghan filmmaker got her start fighting street harassment with her camera

Untold Afghanistan
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."

Today, women’s clothing in Afghanistan includes far more than the blue burqa

Untold Afghanistan