{"id":35255,"date":"2021-08-15T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghan-womens-defiance-and-despair-i-never-thought-id-have-to-wear-a-burqa-my-identity-will-be-lost"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T06:00:06","slug":"afghan-womens-defiance-and-despair-i-never-thought-id-have-to-wear-a-burqa-my-identity-will-be-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35255","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women\u2019s defiance and despair: \u2018I never thought I\u2019d have to wear a burqa. My identity will be lost\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As city after city falls to the Taliban, women fear that the freedoms won since 2001 will be crushed<\/p>\n<p>In a market in Kabul, Aref is doing a booming trade. At first glance, the walls of his shop seem to be curtained in folds of blue fabric. On closer inspection, dozens and dozens of blue burqas hang like spectres from hooks on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/seven-days-that-shook-afghanistan-how-city-after-city-fell-to-the-taliban\" title=\"\">Taliban close in on Kabul,<\/a> women inside the city are getting ready for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/12\/i-worry-my-daughters-will-never-know-peace-women-flee-the-taliban-again-afghanistan\" title=\"\">what may be coming.<\/a> \u201cBefore, most of our customers were from the provinces,\u201d says Aref. \u201cNow it is city women who are buying them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghan-womens-defiance-and-despair-i-never-thought-id-have-to-wear-a-burqa-my-identity-will-be-lost\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As city after city falls to the Taliban, women fear that the freedoms won since 2001 will be crushedIn a market in Kabul, Aref is doing a booming trade. At first glance, the walls of his shop seem to be curtained in folds of blue fabric. On closer insp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,53,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35256,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255\/revisions\/35256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}