The Situation for Women and the History of Women’s Resistance in Afghanistan

<p>This show is dedicated to the people of Afghanistan, and is hosted by SWANA collective members David Lloyd and Soraya Zarook and featuring our guest, Mariam Hotaki. <strong>Mariam Hotaki </strong>is Afghan-American, born and raised in Kabul. She moved to the US as a teenager. Her academic background is in international peace and security and social policy. Currently, Mariam works in Big Tech.&nbsp;Mariam can be found on <a href="https://twitter.com/mariamhotaki" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mariamhotaki/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.</p> <p>Regular listeners will recall our previous <a href="https://anchor.fm/swana/episodes/Afghanistan-in-Focus-with-Mariam-Hotaki--Nawa-Lodin--and-Malalai-Farooqi-Ramadan-e16r4n9/a-a6f7ajl" target="_blank">show</a> with Mariam, who alongside guests <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nawa___/" target="_blank">Nawa Lodin</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/malalai/" target="_blank">Malalai Farooqi Ramadan</a>, provided important reframing for what we think we know about Afghanistan and those who call it home, and most importantly, how our listeners can help amplify the voices of people resisting the Taliban in Afghanistan and the refugees who arrived in the U.S. In tomorrow's show, Mariam continues to help frame the US withdrawal of troops within a longer historical context and reminds us of the long history of Afghan women's resistance movements which continue on into the present.&nbsp;</p> <p>For the past several days and weeks, the people and country of Afghanistan have been subjected to the probably inevitable chaos occasioned by the US and NATO forces’ withdrawal from the nation they have occupied for twenty years and,perhaps more unexpectedly than the chaos that has accompanied the withdrawal, by the rapid collapse of the government security forces in the face of the Taliban’s rapid advances. The Taliban is now in effective, if perhaps temporary, control of the country and is seeking both to establish its legitimacy as a ruling