Two afternoons in the Kabul Stadium

I skipped lunch for 40 days to save money just to order this amazing book from Australia last year. The book had been traveling by sea from Australia to US, then to Malaysia for 3 months. I finally received it on 31^st January 2023. 

Tim Bonyhady discusses about how clothes, carpets, and the camera shaped Afghanistan in this book. Two afternoons in the Kabul stadium refers to one afternoon in 1959 when women appeared unveiled and in western dresses at Ghazi stadium for the celebration of Afghanistan's independence. The second afternoon is in 1999, the day when Taliban executed a woman called Zarmeena for the first time at Ghazi stadium. Since 1996, when the Taliban took over Kabul for the first time, they are obsessed with changing the dress code for women especially.

Now they are in power again, still imposing new dress codes for women and banning them from going to schools, universities, work, travel, public bathrooms, gyms, parks...

Note: It's an old post from my Facebook.