{"id":68877,"date":"2025-01-12T23:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/12\/its-a-continuation-of-hope-paris-based-tv-station-provides-a-lifeline-for-women-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T14:48:04","slug":"its-a-continuation-of-hope-paris-based-tv-station-provides-a-lifeline-for-women-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68877","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a continuation of hope\u2019: Paris-based TV station provides a lifeline for women in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban rule<\/p>\n<p>From a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hours a day into homes across Afghanistan, even as women are being steadily erased from public life in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it\u2019s a way to provide hope,\u201d said Hamida Aman, the Afghanistan-born, Swiss-raised entrepreneur behind the satellite channel Begum TV. \u201cFor women in Afghanistan, television is their only window into the world. Especially now, when they\u2019re confined to their homes; there are no schools, no work for them and no parks or leisure activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/12\/its-a-continuation-of-hope-paris-based-tv-station-provides-a-lifeline-for-women-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4574,"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":[46,71,526,212,79,44,520,519,281,1792,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-culture","category-france","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-society","category-taliban","category-television","category-television-radio","category-women","category-womens-health","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/68877","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\/4574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68878,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68877\/revisions\/68878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}