Books of Taliban Board written by women from Afghan universities

The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban, which also banned human rights and sexual harassment.

About 140 books of women – including the titles “Security in the Chemical Laboratory” – were among 680 books that are concerned about the “Anti -Shariament and Taliban politicians”.

The universities were further told that they no longer allowed to teach 18 subjects, and the Taliban official stated that they “contradicted the principles of Sharia and the system’s policy”.

The decree is the last in a number of restrictions that the Taliban brought after returning to power four years ago.

Just this week, the fiber-optic internet was banned in at least 10 provinces by order of the Taliban Supreme leader during the course, which officials said it prevented immorality.

While the rules influenced many aspects of life, women and girls were especially rigid: they were forbidden to access the sixth grade education, and one of the latest routes for further training at the end of 2024, when the obstetricians were calmly closed.

Even university subjects have now been oriented: six out of 18 prohibited women, including gender and development, the role of women in communication and women’s sociology.

The Taliban government said it respects women’s rights in accordance with the interpretation of Afghan culture and Islamic law.

A member of the Committee, which reviews the books confirmed the ban on books written by women, informing the BBC AFGhan that “all the books that the authors of women do not allow you to teach.”

Odeli, the former Deputy Minister of Justice before the Taliban return and one of the authors who found his books in the forbidden list was not surprised by this step.

“Given what the Taliban has been doing over the last four years, it was not designed to expect changes to the curriculum,” she said.

“Given the myzogistic thinking and the Taliban policy, it is only natural that when women cannot be studied, their views, ideas and works are also suppressed.”

The new guidelines that were seen by the BBC AFGhan were issued in late August.

ZIAR Rahman Aryubi, Deputy Academic Director of the Taliban Government Ministry, said in a letter to universities that the decisions were made by the College of “religious scientists and experts”.

Like the books of women, the prohibition appears to be sent by Iranian authors or publishers, with one member of the BBC review board that it was designed to prevent the penetration of Iranian content into the Afghan program.

The list of 50 pages sent to all universities in Afghanistan appeared 679 titles, 310 of which are the authors of Iranian writers or published in Iran.

Two different people, including one on the book review committee, said the BBC AFGhan that it was decided to “prevent the penetration of Iranian content” through the curriculum.

In neighboring countries, there are no simple relationships that have been postponed to questions such as water rights in recent years. Iran also forced more than 1.5 million Afghans who lived in the country Return across the border from January amid the growth of anti-Afghan moods.

But this decision was disturbed by some teachers, with a professor in one institution, who acted on the condition of anonymity, saying that he feared that it was almost impossible to fill in the gap.

“The books of Iranian authors and translators serve as a major connection between the universities of Afghanistan and the global academic community. Their removal creates a significant void in higher education,” he said.

Professor of Kabul University told the BBC that in such circumstances they were forced to prepare the sections of the textbooks themselves, given the do and does not impose the Taliban government.

But the most important question is whether these sections were prepared in accordance with global standards or not.

The BBC appealed to the Taliban Ministry of Education for comment.