The First Ones
The First Women’s Hospital in Afghanistan
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi During King Amanullah Khan’s reign, alongside the establishment of…
The First Woman Broadcaster on Radio Afghanistan
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi In the early spring of 1941, after a 13-year…
Ershad al-Neswan: The First Printed Voice of Afghan Women
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi In the third year of King Amanullah Khan’s reign,…
Soraya Tarzi: The Woman Who Unveiled Afghanistan’s History
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi When King Amanullah Khan, Afghanistan’s progressive monarch, returned from…
The First Woman to Sing on Afghan Radio
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi Nearly two decades after the establishment of radio in…
The First Female Minister in Afghanistan
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi After the ratification of Afghanistan’s third constitution in 1964,…
The First Female Teacher and Journalist of Afghanistan
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi Asma Rasmiya Tarzi was born in Damascus, one of…
The First Female General of Afghanistan — Suhaila Siddiq
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi Afghanistan’s first female general, Suhaila Siddiq, was a pioneering…
The First Women Elected to Afghanistan’s House of Representatives
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi The decade of democracy in Afghanistan (1964–1973) brought political…
The First Girls’ School in Afghanistan
✍️ By: Hamia Naderi Until 1920, girls in Afghanistan had no access to…
