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...Taliban banned women from working "we were so sad, so angry," she remembers. But after a few months stuck at home, Shahnaz, 43, began reading to keep herself occupied; law books, mostly, and a history of Afghanistan. When the Taliban forced all women to wear the burka, that long all-encompassing cloak that hides women's bodies, faces and identities, Shahnaz bought the cheapest she could find, figuring that the law would not last. Though she had always made do with a simple headscarf in deference to Islamic modesty, as a kid she had played dress ups in her mother...
...locate her again. In January he returned to the refugee camp, and this time someone recognized Gula's picture and took her to meet McCurry. She now lives in Afghanistan with her husband and their three children. For the past decade, she has covered her face with a burka. When she lifted the garment for McCurry, he felt certain she was the girl from his photograph, a suspicion confirmed by technology that compared the irises in the 1984 picture to those in one taken in January. She will appear on the April cover of National Geographic...
Onstage he's as manic as ever, sweating by the pint as his body bounds around, trying to keep up with the rapid-fire humor synapses of his brain. His jokes run from nonsensical (wet-burka competitions and "Enron Hubbard, head of the Church of Profitology") to predictable ("We used to pay for powder in little white envelopes"). Comedians who play closer to the edge, like Chris Rock or Andy Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last...
While welcoming Afghan women's newfound freedom to throw off the burka, several readers cautioned that the celebration should not veil other limits on women's liberty. "You said, 'Nowhere in the Muslim world are women treated as equals,'" observed a California woman. "Excuse me, but nowhere in the whole wide world are women treated as equals." A Muslim Pennsylvanian challenged cultural assumptions: "The modern Western idea of feminism instructs females to be like males, while Islam encourages us to accept our sex and live as proud females." Looking at both cultures, a Canadian man felt it might be best...
...dies down, but she is grateful for this onscreen opportunity. In her "first and last" venture as an actress, she made a point that she says is often missed. "War touches the well-being of women in such a negative way. Its effects are not as visible as the burka, so we don?t see it or talk about it," she says. "War is a prison, specifically in the lives of women...