Our Face Tells
Hosted by the Shriver Center at UMBC, this short documentary premiere event took place on the 1-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul and the Afghan government in 2021. Zareen Taj (LLC Cohort 22, advocate, author, speaker, and filmmaker) presented her new film with her long-time collaborator Jay Simpson (M.A. Gallatin School of Individualized at New York University, 2021) and host a question and answer period afterward.
Funded by The Shriver Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the short documentary uses the framework of “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation” to draw attention to how Hazara women work toward healing themselves and their communities and transforming their society.
“On behalf of Afghan girls, particularly Hazara girls, we have a message for the Taliban that we will never be defeated.”
“There is no difference between the Taliban of the 90s and of now. They have the same ideology and perspective… but there is a big difference between women.”