happy #InternationalWomensDay - especially to brave and resilient Afghan women who’ve been barred from study and work and from many other aspects of society for nearly four years.
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Sodaba سودابه
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Sodaba سودابه
@SodabaH
multimedia BBC journalist focused on international news
London شامل ہوئے Ocak 2014
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The @bbcworldservice has launched an education programme in Pashto and Dari for Afghan children barred from school. It's called Dars (Lesson), is on TV, radio & online & is hosted by BBC Afghan female journalists
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…
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It was a real honour to win this award in Hanna’s name — she was an absolutely brilliant and inspirational young journalist who shone a light on so many important stories and is greatly missed by all of @BBCNews 💛
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Thrilled that my book #Scoops is becoming a Netflix film, with an extraordinary cast. Being played by @billiepiper is beyond my wildest dreams.
@NetflixUK #scoop
Netflix UK & Ireland@NetflixUK
Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell will star in SCOOP – a film based on Sam McAlister’s memoir giving the inside account of Newsnight’s bombshell interview with Prince Andrew.
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Inside the Peshawar mosque after today’s explosion (picture verified by BBC). Death toll currently at 28, over 65 injured. Updates across @BBCNews
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the Taliban’s logic about women:
begging on the streets is OK
studying or working to support yourself/your family is NOT OK
illustration: syd_muhammad_
original pic: mahab_azizi_photography
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First day, first live as BBC’s Pakistan correspondent.
Joining the fantastic team in Islamabad at a tumultuous time for the region
Today, Pakistan’s government is in Geneva asking for billions to rebuild after flooding. What will the world reply?
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In the Beeb watching former refugee turned NHS doctor @DrWaheedArian on my TV screen @BBCHARDtalk - proud to see his important work being highlighted by such a high-profile programme 👏🏽
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university professor tears up his academic degrees live on TV in protest to Taliban banning women from schools and unis. “I’m doing this because if they’re not allowing my mother and sister to study I’m also not going to teach”
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the brave women of Afghanistan are shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) and “education is our right”.
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have iraqis not read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak?
love this thread
Bayt Al Fann@BaytAlFann
Welcome to Al-Mutanabbi Street the ‘Book Market of Baghdad’, where books remain in the street at night because Iraqis say: “The reader does not steal and the thief does not read.” A thread on the rich heritage of the historic book market on Al-Mutanabbi Street…
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JOB: We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced project manager to lead our work in #Afghanistan on mine risk education, health, nutrition and supporting local media organisations. Sound interesting? Apply here: bbc.in/3hN10cO #devjobs #mediajobs
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last time women in afg protested against taliban they were detained for several days with no access to family or lawyer. were only released after they were forced to confess on camera that they were backed by the west. @AmiriWahida was one of them. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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afghan women are chanting #allornone - they're protesting against taliban's decision to ban women from universities. at least 5 women have been arrested + several journalists #LetHerLearn
Wahida Amiri@AmiriWahida
چقدر در این شرایطه اعتراض کردند سخت است من با این خانم های قهرامان کشورم می بالم که از بطن جامعه برای مردم شان عدالت می خواهند جهان مکلف است که برای افغانستان عدالت را پیاده کند
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Afghan tv presenter gets emotional while announcing Taliban’s decision to ban women from universities.
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male students and professors are walking out of classrooms/quitting their jobs in solidarity with afghan women who’ve been banned from attending universities by the Taliban.
Obaidullah Wardak@Obaidwardak7
I have served the faculty of mathematics and its students for over 10 years but despite rich experience and a doctorate I don’t wish to continue working somewhere where there is an organized discrimination against innocent and talented girls of this country by those in power. 2/2
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we’re back to 90s with the Taliban
- Afghan women’s lives have become a living hell
- al qaeda leader was reportedly protected by TB (like Osama)
- Afghanistan = pariah state
- people starving
- minorities attacked
billions wasted, thousands of lives lost - for what?
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there were rumours about this for weeks. women were so fearful and it’s finally happened. girls were banned from secondary schools and now they’re banned from going to uni. Ffs. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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