{"id":32013,"date":"2025-09-19T19:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32013\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:44:12","slug":"taliban-ban-dozens-of-books-written-by-women-from-afghan-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/32013\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban ban dozens of books written by women from Afghan universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration has banned 140 books written by women from being taught in Afghan universities in a set of new education guidelines issued in late August, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 679 banned textbooks, 310 were drafted by Iranian authors or publishers. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Afghan universities, the deputy academic director of the Ministry of Higher Education, Ziaur Rahman Aryoubi, stated that a panel of &#8220;religious scholars and experts&#8221; had found that the banned books violated the Taliban interpretation of Sharia laws.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aryoubi, the works were assessed for their \u201cideological, cultural, religious and scientific\u201d content.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC, a member of the book panel said that the ban on books written by Iranians or published in Iran was part of a bid to &#8220;prevent the infiltration of Iranian content&#8221; into the Afghan curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also instructed universities to ban 18 university courses which went against religious laws, adding that a further 201 &#8220;problematic&#8221; university courses remained under review.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban government has imposed a stranglehold on women\u2019s lives, notably through so-called morality laws, which forbid them from showing their faces outside the home.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, global rights organisations mourned the four-year anniversary of the administration&#8217;s ban on women&#8217;s access to secondary education, which was instated after the Taliban seized Afghanistan, as NATO and US forces withdrew at the end of a two-decade war.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a harsh crackdown on human rights, the Taliban administration has sought to gain international recognition while enforcing its interpretation of Islamic law.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Russia became the first country in the world to grant the Taliban government formal recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT The Taliban administration has banned 140 books written by women from being taught in Afghan universities in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[16942,489,84,156,22322,111,139,69,26298],"class_list":{"0":"post-32013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-kabul","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-taliban"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}