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First Women's Magazine
First Women's Magazine
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KABUL, Dec 26: In a sign of the changing times in Afghanistan, the first magazine for
women in nearly 10 years has hit the shelves of the war-ravaged country. "Seerat"
(Attitude) does not look like a standard glossy magazine. Crudely churned out on an old
fashioned printing machine it features a picture of a woman being pulled along by a rope.
"We call on women to claim back their rights and to express themselves on an artistic
level or by writing," said the 38-year-old Mari.
Employed by the ministry of information, she is one of three journalists behind the
project in a country where independent newspapers do not exist. "We want to work for a
youth that aspires to other things," said Jamila Omar, a younger member of the trio. The
three women are funding the weekly magazine out of their own pockets. All they have
asked is that the ministry, which reads it for censorship, does not change any of the
articles, Five hundred copies of Seerat, which costs 2,000 afghanis (10 cents), are being
distributed by its authors to colleges, bookshops and other institutions. (AFP)
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