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How the Taliban transformed women’s education from a path forward into a path out

Lyse Doucet chronicles Afghanistan’s history as it was seen from the InterContinental

The young activists trying to rebuild a nation

Tom Gardner, our Africa correspondent, watches an American-led effort to fight jihadism

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest…

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