‘Standing with my sisters’: Afghan academic quits over ban on women in universities
FRANCE24, 03 Jan 2023
An Afghan academic who caused a storm by quitting and tearing up his degree certificates on live television to protest the Taliban’s ban on women attending university has vowed to fight the order. Ismail Mashal, a lecturer in journalism for more than a decade at three universities in Kabul, shredded his qualifications and resigned from the institutions after the ban was issued last month.
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