Londoner of the Day goes to student photographer Asef Ali Mohammad, who is in line for a prestigious international prize for his snap of a “fleeting moment in time.” Middlesex University undergraduate Asef is one of 10 finalists on the shortlist for the Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus competition. Judges were drawn to his [...]
A FACEBOOK SUPPORT GROUP FOR HAJ KAZIM YAZDANI Mr. Yazdani is a historian, researcher and author of fifteen books. His writings represent historical facts and political developments, social and cultural discriminations in Afghanistan and the region. He is a prominent personality and religious reformer, human rights and minority rights defender. Mr. Yazdani`s works talk about [...]
By Basir Ahang Within the sprawling city of Athens, Greece, Victoria Park resembles a war front camp. Close to a thousand Afghanistani asylum seekers, many are children, now call this park home. Hoping to put the struggles of a war torn homeland behind them, they left Afghanistan to find security. Sadly, the hunger, homelessness, cruelty [...]
Monday, December 5, Bonn, Germany. Resolution of protests Afghanistan Turks, social and cultural programs of Hazara, Uzbek and Turkman ethnicities in Europe will be organized in Bonn Germany on the second Bonn conference.
The inequalities in the diverse ethnic context of Afghanistan is one of the main internal issues in the ruined country which has been in the hands of those who have been foreign dependent, despite the lack of attention at the international and national level, the ruling and those pro uni-ethnic dominance have tried to make [...]
A message from Basir Ahang journalist and human rights activist in Italy: Unfortunately Australian government decided to deport the asylum seeker Ismail Mirzajan back to Afghanistan; he is a Hazara asylum seeker who has arrived to Australia in February 2010. He fled Afghanistan as a teenager, in 2001, after the killing of his father by [...]
MERYL NAIDOO REFUGEE Maryam Gholami has found peace, opportunity and a future in Tasmania. Now the Moonah 17-year-old, who could not speak English when she arrived in Australia, wants to help asylum seekers at the Pontville detention centre. Maryam, her mother, two brothers and a sister fled Iran eight years ago after years of being [...]
By Mohammad Amin Wahidi The latest reports from Turkey show that hundreds of Afghan Asylum Seekers are being homeless after the heavy earthquake in this country. The asylum seekers who are hundreds including women and children, have been complaining for the situation they are in. These asylum seekers are the people who escaped war, genocide, [...]
Hazara-Ukrainian Artist Akbar Khurasani Akbar Khurasani was born in fall 1961, in a mountain village Sangtakht, Daikundi province in Afghanistan. The Ukraine has become his second homeland. Here he found true friends and great teachers and grew as a professional artist. In 1994 he graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, the studio of People’s [...]
