{"id":74372,"date":"2025-09-22T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/22\/taliban-afghanistan-women-girls-madrasa-religious-schools-only-option-education"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:00:02","slug":"send-your-daughters-or-you-get-no-aid-the-taliban-are-making-religious-schools-girls-only-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74372","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Send your daughters or you get no aid\u2019: the Taliban are making religious schools girls\u2019 only option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families\u2019 agreement to strict Islamic education<\/p>\n<p>When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Nahid, 24, was midway through an economics degree. She had hoped to work in a university after she graduated.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Nahid now spends her mornings at a religious school in the basement of a mosque in the western city of Herat, sitting on the floor and reciting scripture with 50 other women and girls, all dressed in black from head to toe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/22\/taliban-afghanistan-women-girls-madrasa-religious-schools-only-option-education\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families\u2019 agreement to strict Islamic educationWhen the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Nahid, 24, was midway through an economics degree. She had hoped to work in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4989,"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":[46,615,3402,646,860,447,371,61,44,3282,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-faith-schools","category-gender","category-global-education","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women-under-the-taliban","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\/74372","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\/4989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372\/revisions\/74373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}