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Exclusive Interview with Dr. Sima Samar
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Voices of Afghanistan Interview Series: ‘We have kept hope alive in the heart of darkness, waiting for the day when we can once again raise our voices and be present in society.’
In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international headlines have since moved on to other crises, millions of Afghan women and girls continue to live under increasingly restrictive policies that have systematically stripped away their most fundamental rights.
Who gets to dream? Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib on education, power and gender apartheid
What does it mean to treat education as a form of resistance, especially when access to learning is denied as a means of control?
In this exchange, 2012 Right Livelihood Laureate Dr Sima Samar and Jamila Raqib, Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and legacy holder of 2012 Laureate Dr Gene Sharp, sat down for a candid, peer-to-peer conversation on how education is both weaponised and reclaimed in contexts of conflict and repression. Speaking directly to one another, they reflect on the rise of what Samar calls “education apartheid” and share urgent, decentralised strategies for keeping knowledge alive—from underground schools to civic education via mobile phones.
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CMU’s Center for Arts & Society presents an Afghan Dinner and a Reading: “Outspoken” with human rights activist Sima Samar
Join CAS for a Reading and discussion with author and activist Sima Samar on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 from 5:30-7:00pm in the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, CFA 111.