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'Complex' world of Taliban home: Wife embraces Taliban 'brothers', asserts women's right to freedom

'Complex' world of Taliban home: Wife embraces Taliban 'brothers', asserts women's right to freedom
France 24 Monday 31 August 2026, 07:24 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Elise Blanchard, award-winning photojournalist and author of “Dans la Maison d’un Taliban” (In the House of a Taliban). Blanchard’s work challenges narratives that reduce Afghan women to passive victims. Drawing on rare access to a Taliban household, she describes a social landscape shaped by profound contradictions.

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Elise Blanchard, award-winning photojournalist and author of “Dans la Maison d’un Taliban” (In the House of a Taliban). Blanchard’s work challenges narratives that reduce Afghan women to passive victims. Drawing on rare access to a Taliban household, she describes a social landscape shaped by profound contradictions. In drought-stricken Badghis province, Blanchard traces child marriage through a chain of material pressures exacerbated by climate change. Gendered violence is explained through the prism of patriarchy, poverty, environmental crisis and political instability. [Image text:] French photographer won this year's World Press Photo DOCUMENTING THEPLIGHT OF AFGHAN WOMEN FRANCE 24
Complex (ORG) Taliban (ORG) Eve Irvine (PERSON) Elise Blanchard (PERSON) the House of a Taliban (ORG) Blanchard (PERSON) Afghan (ORG) Badghis province (LOCATION)
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