Shows the Book, Hides the Face, Takes the Photo and Runs: This Is How Afghan Women Deprived of Education Protest for the Taliban

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Several young people meet in front of the closed gate of a school and pose, with their backs or faces covered, showing their textbooks or their mobile phone screens during an online class. Seconds, they run off to get lost in the streets of Herat, in western Afghanistan, fearful of the Taliban arriving and ending up beaten and detained. “It’s our way of protesting and showing that we are still trying to study and learn,” explains Soha, one of th…