The Taliban wrote the ban written by women from Afghan universities

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

There were about 140 women’s books – including titles such as “Safety in the Chemical Laboratory” – out of 680 books that were “anxious” because of “anti -city and the Taliban policies”.

Universities have also been informed that they are no longer permitted to teach 18 topics, as a Taliban official said they “contradict the principles of Sharia and the regime’s policy.”

The decree is the latest in a series of restrictions that the Taliban has brought since her return to power four years ago.

Only this week, the Internet of optical fibers was banned in at least 10 provinces based on the orders of the Taliban Supreme Leader in a move that officials said to prevent immorality.

Although the rules had an impact on many aspects of life, women and girls were particularly upset: they were prevented from reaching education during the sixth grade, with one of their last methods to more training in late 2024, when the tribe courses were quietly closed.

Now the university’s subjects about women have been targeted: six out of 18 banned, specifically revolving around women, including gender and development, the role of women in communications, and women’s sociology.

The Taliban government said it respects women’s rights according to its interpretation of Afghan culture and Islamic law.

A member of the committee that retracts books prohibited the books written by women, and BBC told Afghans that “all the books written by women are not allowed to teach.”

Zakia Adili, the former Deputy Minister of Justice before the return of the Taliban and one of the authors who found their books on the banned list, was not surprising this step.

She said: “Given what the Taliban had done over the past four years, they could not have expected them to impose changes on the curricula.”

“Given the mentality and policies of women in the Taliban, it is natural that when women themselves are not allowed to study, their opinions, ideas and writings are also suppressed.”

The new guidelines, seen by BBC Afghans, were released in late August.

In a letter to universities, Zour Rahman Ariopi, Deputy Academic Director of the Taliban Government, said in a letter to universities that the decisions were taken by a committee of “religious scholars and experts.”

In addition to women’s books, it seems that the ban has been targeted by books by Iranian authors or publishers, as a BBC’s members of the Books Review Committee told that it was designed to “prevent the infiltration of Iranian content” in the Afghan curriculum.

In the 50 -page list sent to all universities in Afghanistan, 679 titles appear, 310 of which are either composed by Iranian writers or published in Iran.

Two different people, including one of them on the Books Review Committee, told the BBC Afghan that the decision was taken “to prevent infiltration of Iranian content” through the curriculum.

The neighboring countries do not have an easy relationship, as they collide with issues such as water rights in recent years. Iran has also forced more than 1.5 million Afghans who were living in the country Again across the border since January amid the growing feelings of Afghan.

But the decision is concerned about some of the lecturers, with a professor in one institution, who occurs, provided that his identity is not disclosed, saying that he is afraid that it will be almost impossible to fill the gap.

“Iranian authors and translators wrote as the main link between the universities of Afghanistan and the global academic community. They excluding them create a big vacuum in higher education,” he said.

A professor at Kabul BBC told the BBC that, under these circumstances, they are forced to prepare the classroom classes themselves, taking into account what it does and what the Taliban government does not impose.

But the decisive question is whether or not these seasons can be prepared according to international standards.

BBC approached the Taliban Ministry of Education to comment.