Zuhra Bahman gives the inside story on how male sorcerers are keeping women down in Afghanistan.

Courageous Kabulis are getting on with democracy – but that’s not likely to grab the foreign media headlines.

Zuhra Bahman is unimpressed by the two women candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential election.

Zuhra Bahman meets the likeable – and unlikely – man who would be Afghanistan’s next president. He’s considered honest,...

Although eight years have passed since the fall of the Taliban, some Afghans are still returning to their country for the first...

Sex, dating and the struggle for modernity, by Zuhra Bahman.

A canny village woman talks to *Zuhra Bahman*.

Adventures in the ‘terror’ zone – and how the hijab does not keep you hidden

I had an accident. (Actually, I want to shout that I almost died!) I was being driven from Mazar e Sharef in Northern Afghanistan...

If I got a pound for every time someone asked me to take care as I talked about visiting Kabul I’d be a millionaire by now. I do...

My relationship with Peshawar has been hatred on first sight. I was 6 years old when I visited the city for the first time and...