John Legend To Host ‘Afghan Star’ Podcast About Revolutionary Music Talent Format

deadline.com Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. Launched four years after the fall of the…

King Charles risks appearing "petty" about Prince Harry

newsweek.com King Charles III's decision not to meet Prince Harry during his visit to Britain for an Invictus Games event this week is "very disappointing," and the monarch runs the risk…

China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024

zerohedge.com China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to…

‘FBI’ Star Zeeko Zaki Breaks Down That Traumatic Reveal About OA’s Past

thewrap.com Note: This story contains spoilers from “FBI” Season 6, Episode 11. In Tuesday night’s episode of “FBI,” OA Zidan (Zeeko Zaki) put his life on the line to retrieve a…

French schools and the scourge of teenage violence

theweek.com A 15-year-old boy beaten to death by four teenagers as he walked home from his school in a Paris suburb; a 14-year-old girl left in a coma after a brutal attack by fellow…

‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

theguardian.com On the nights that she manages to fall asleep, Zahra Joya always returns to Afghanistan in her dreams. On good nights she travels back to Bamyan, her home province, with its…

Nonstop Mideast coverage of Israel-Hamas war pauses for protests and police action at US schools

abcnews.go.com After weeks of nonstop coverage of destruction and death across the Gaza Strip, media across the wider Middle East has latched onto the demonstrations roiling American…

Can journalism survive the Taliban?

theguardian.com The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. With journalists…

The Taliban targeted us, beat us and chased us out. This is how we run our Afghan newspaper from exile

theguardian.com In the two decades before the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan had a vibrant media sector. There were newspapers, television channels, periodicals, magazines and more,…

Phones, Islamic books and currency exchange. Some businesses are making money out of Taliban rule

abcnews.go.com The Taliban takeover three years ago has sent Afghanistan's economy into a tailspin Phones, Islamic books and currency exchange. Some businesses are making money out of…

From spring offensive to charm offensive: The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan

apnews.com Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals. It’s a motley…

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

vox.com Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous. Low-slung station wagons are all but extinct on American roads, and even sedans have become an endangered species. (Ford,…

These Are The Countries That Have Become 'Sadder' Since 2010

zerohedge.com These Are The Countries That Have Become 'Sadder' Since 2010 Can happiness be quantified? Some approaches that try to answer this question make a distinction between two…

Hot Docs Festival: Middle Eastern Films Get Spotlight Amid Israel-Hamas War

hollywoodreporter.com The impact of the Israel-Hamas war covered extensively by the world media and saturating social media platforms has Middle Eastern directors and their films suddenly in the…

These countries have already banned TikTok

pbs.org TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the U.S., where new legislation threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. It would be the…

These are the countries where TikTok is already banned

apnews.com TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the U.S., where new legislation threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. It would be the…

Afghan Filmmaker Roya Sadat on Her Journey Filming the Journey of Women Opposing the Taliban in Hot Docs Title ‘The Sharp Edge of Peace’

variety.com Eminent Afghanistan filmmaker Roya Sadat had quite the journey while filming “The Sharp Edge of Peace,” which has its world premiere at Hot Docs. The film follows four women…

The impact of TikTok’s ban in other countries could signal what’s ahead for the U.S

techcrunch.com The impact of TikTok’s ban in other countries could signal what’s ahead for the U.S. On April 24, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill that would ban TikTok if its owner…