#Afghan culture

[khaperai]

Nomadic Kuchi women and girls near a Mosque on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan 1973

[icantseemyreflection]

I'm celebrating Nowruz for the first time and would appreciate any advice or info on best ways to do it! Pls help me haha

[arixnahd]

[escondidolibrary]

Join us upstairs on Saturday, November 18 at 2:00 p.m. for a special Cultural Fair Series presentation: Afghan Culture & Art!

Meet with successful Afghan professionals Wazma Taheri and Mumtaz Momand; learn about Afghanistan and Afghan women’s clothes with presenter Marva Saydee; enjoy live Afghan music and an Attan dance performance by Naim Hakimi and his team; browse Shughla Karzai’s artwork exhibition and create your own artwork.

The program is generously sponsored by California Humanities.

[parsabad]

Haftsin in Museum of Archeology and Art of Iran Happy Nowruz to all friends 🥳

I hope everyone is in peace in the new solar year specially Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, Yemen and other countries 🤲🏽❤️

🇮🇷🇹🇯🇦🇫🇺🇿🇦🇿🇦🇲🇹🇷🇹🇲🇮🇶

[lvstharmony]

my weird snack cravings / combos makes me question how bad my pregnancy cravings would be

[holidaysincambodia]

Hazara

[yenleak]

Central Asian migrants in Russia are experiencing a new wave of discrimination. But this is much more serious than you think.

For many decades, Turkic people and other ethnic nationalities of Central Asia have been persecuted from society both in the migrating countries and in their own homelands. Every year and a half in Russia there is another wave of hatred towards us, backed up by absurd laws and inaction. We, Central Asians, are the least protected in the whole society and are now under even greater threat with the impending laws.

I don't even know what I can do to help. My relatives, the relatives of my friends, return home with disgusting experiences. Some are illegally sued for nothing.

Some just do not come back. And after a couple of months, it may turn out that they are missing or died in foreign war.

This is another reality that is being kept silent. And if earlier we could contribute to doing something to bring a loved one home, now the central asians are in serious danger. By adopting the above-mentioned law, there will be no more chance for security. We become cannon fodder for the benefit of a foreign country.

This is not just a law for which you will be given a miserable fine. This is not just one of the many restrictions that supposedly should not cause us any inconvenience. It's about how many people will suddenly start disappearing, how many fathers, husbands and brothers will not come home.

[nthflower]

İt's funny how sexualised dust ist. And how she is always pretty and sexy like yeah she is etc. But she is in modesty. She wears an niqab. Whole point is being modest and not attractive.

Like even with hijab you always need to be careful like your tunic is not too short or your curves are not so recognisable , your things are not too tight and she is drawn always like body latex suit but add skirt.

I even saw someone say to her her niqab makes her mysterious and sexy like this is so???

[arixnahd]

[mithliya]

really disproving my point that y’all are racist here by saying “immigrants out, germany is for germans” and “non-white men are by nature rapists & i wish you get deported” 🤨 if u send me shit like this i’m just blocking bc i cannot be bothered going in circles and repeating the same points over & over again.

[escondidolibrary]

Join us upstairs on Saturday, November 18 at 2:00 p.m. for a special Cultural Fair Series presentation: Afghan Culture & Art!

Meet with successful Afghan professionals Wazma Taheri and Mumtaz Momand; learn about Afghanistan and Afghan women’s clothes with presenter Marva Saydee; enjoy live Afghan music and an Attan dance performance by Naim Hakimi and his team; browse Shughla Karzai’s artwork exhibition and create your own artwork.

The program is generously sponsored by California Humanities.

[pashtunology]

Women constitute the backbone of Pashtun society and social organisation. Their role is not only limited to home management, they have played a significant role in all fields throughout history. They have stood in the battlefield with men to defend the motherland and if we look into Pashto literature we find a significant contribution of women and their role in society.

Landey, Tapey and Naarey are three forms of unwritten Pashto folk literature, more than half of this fine and heart-rendering poetry is the work of women.

Landay is a traditional Afghan poetic form consisting of a single couplet. The most enchanting landey have been sung by Pashtun women in battlefields and during episodes of love, such as:

پاس په کمر ولاړه ګله!

نصیب د چا يې؟ اوبه زه ��ر خېژومه

Oh flower on the mountain peak,

It is I who water you, God knows who would own you.

Pashtun women also used landey in the battlefield. We come across events in our national history where the singing of a single landey by a woman has proven to be more effective than weapons.

In the battle of Maiwand, when Pashtuns prepared to fight for their country, a Pashtun maiden proudly sent off her lover to the battlefield and dispatched this message to the commander of this patriotic war:

پر ایوب خان مې سلام وایه!

دا دئ جانان مې کومکي در ولېږنه

Convey my greetings to Ayub Khan,

I have sent off my lover to lend a hand.

When the young Pashtun returns triumphant from war, his lover greets him as such:

د خېره راغلې! په خېر راشې!

چې د دښمن په مخ کې خړ نه شوې مئينه

Welcome! Welcome home, thank God,

You were not humbled before the enemy.

[See photos for more landeys]

Other parts of folk literature are Naara in stories and Gharra in the national dance called Attan and Sundarey (songs) recited in weddings. Most of the Naaras and wedding songs have been authored by women. We’ll look into those in future posts. Stay tuned!

Artwork by minnamamik

Source: Prof Habibi articles

Pashtunology

[divinum-pacis]

March 8, 2021: Afghanistan refugee women living in India hold placards during a demonstration to mark International Womens' Day in New Delhi, India. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]