Jay Simpson

Hazara Women of Afghanistan Share Digital Stories (2025)

This program marks the first-ever digital storytelling initiative dedicated exclusively to empowering Hazara women, providing them a unique platform to share their voices and experiences. Hazara Women of Afghanistan Share Digital Stories is a hybrid digital empowerment program designed to support refugees in the D.C. metropolitan area and Malmö, Sweden, by providing them with digital… Continue reading Hazara Women of Afghanistan Share Digital Stories (2025)

Journey to Empowerment: Women After the Taliban

Read online | Support by purchasing a copy In 2004, Zareen Taj felt urgency for making a trip to her country to explore the lives of survivors of Taliban massacres. The Taliban murdered men and burned homes and bazaars in an attempt to wipe out the population and economic means of the Hazara, an ethnic… Continue reading Journey to Empowerment: Women After the Taliban

Our Face Tells: Seeing the Genocide of Hazaras in Afghanistan (2022)

“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.” “On behalf of Afghan girls, particularly Hazara girls, we have a message for the Taliban that we will never be defeated.” By Zareen Taj in collaboration with Jay Simpson. Looking… Continue reading Our Face Tells: Seeing the Genocide of Hazaras in Afghanistan (2022)

Oppression of Hazara in Afghanistan (2008)

As a child, Zareen Taj witnessed the Soviet invasion and occupation of her country and the brutal oppression and persecution of her people by the hands of the Taliban. After two decades of absence, Zareen returned to Afghanistan for a two month video documentary journey that she organized and led. She brought back over 40… Continue reading Oppression of Hazara in Afghanistan (2008)