{"id":38288,"date":"2021-10-23T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/23\/we-planted-a-seed-the-afghan-artists-who-painted-for-freedom"},"modified":"2021-10-23T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T10:00:38","slug":"we-planted-a-seed-the-afghan-artists-who-painted-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38288","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We planted a seed\u2019: the Afghan artists who painted for freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban has whitewashed Kabul\u2019s political murals  \u2013 and those who created them have fled into exile<\/p>\n<p>Negina Azimi felt shock and fear like never before when she heard that Taliban fighters had entered Kabul on 15 August. As an outspoken female artist in Afghanistan, she knew they would come for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard reports that the Taliban might raid houses. I was scared because I live in a very central neighbourhood and every room in my house is adorned with the kind of art the Taliban won\u2019t approve of,\u201d she says, referring to paintings that feature messages about women\u2019s empowerment and are critical of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/nov\/23\/politics.september11\">Taliban\u2019s atrocities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Negina Azimi, who is now in a refugee camp in Albania with others of the ArtLords collective. They are now planning an exhibition<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/23\/we-planted-a-seed-the-afghan-artists-who-painted-for-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban has whitewashed Kabul\u2019s political murals  \u2013 and those who created them have fled into exileNegina Azimi felt shock and fear like never before when she heard that Taliban fighters had entered Kabul on 15 August. As an outspoken female artist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"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":[46,546,91,71,53,78,494,61,1553,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-life-and-style","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-street-art","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\/38288","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38288\/revisions\/38289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}