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Fariba Nawa
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Fariba Nawa
@faribanawa
Journalist, Host of On Spec podcast @onspecstories, Author of Opium Nation, co-author of The American Way: Stories of Invasion, mother, Afghan albino
- #Pakistan's national airline PIA profiting off the misery of #Afghans by charging $1200 for plane tickets that used to be about $200 from Kabul to Pakistan. #AfghanistanCrisis
- Western journalists who embedded with the Taliban have Stockholm Syndrome, calling those who oppose the TB as outliers, and claiming that Afghans just love them because they bring peace. The assumption being that Afghans don't want freedom, and women's rights is a foreign concept
- I've been talking to women inside #Afghanistan and a worrying factor is that the men in their circle are too comfortable with the draconian #Taliban laws against women. "Our men seem to agree with them. They're not going to stand up for us. They're going to stand with them."
- Replying to @faribanawaThe concept for women empowerment existed before the West came to #Afghanistan. Read about Rabia Balkhi, read our poetry, Malalai and so many others whose names have been buried. Our women resisted misogyny and patriarchy before imperialism.
- I can’t tell you how often I get “Why do you dye your hair blond and you don’t look Afghan.” I even dyed it black to get away from the stereotypes in college. But I’m an Afghan blond. Get over it. Let’s talk about the news. Photo: Me as a refugee kid in Islamabad, PK
- I watched my neighbor count her change and cry today as she asked for a loan to pay her groceries. #Turkey’s economic crisis and suffering hit home. She’s 65, a former teacher who lives on her pension. But the cashier took out his wallet and said, “This one’s on me.”
- The decision to use this bomb was planned weeks before, not a split second decision. #Afghanistan
- Meet Şenay Küçücükalp, one of 15 women taxi drivers among 50,000 men cabbies in Istanbul. She’s spent a month in jail for criticizing #Erdogan, survived domestic violence and now taking on a job few women would dare. My latest: #Turkey# theworld.org/media/2022-06-…
- US government insider tells me the areas has been under watch 24/7 to avoid civilian casualties. #Afghanistan
- Replying to @faribanawaI read an interview with one of these journalists. He's saying that he's getting messages from Afghans that they are so in peace now that the TB are in control. But I'm getting messages from Kandahar to Badakhshan from women wanting to kill themselves. They matter.
- Replying to @faribanawaThe TB are not a decolonial movement. They happen to be a radical modern movement, a symptom of Western imperialism, so when those on the left support them, I just want to scream: Go live under them before you go on the air defending them.
- Replying to @faribanawaI don't want to name names but my justified rage is going to speak up against these so-called experts who have taken on the Afghan voice and speak for our men and women. Please stop. You're doing serious damage to the reality that exists.
- Replying to @faribanawaBut when women turned to the West for allies, there's nothing wrong with that when their own men were killing them. Delegitimizing that call for help as Western feminism and what the TB are bringing to Af as "local" and "organic" is bullshit.