Begum TV, a satellite channel launched by Afghan-born entrepreneur Hamida Aman, broadcasts 24 hours a day of programming aimed at Afghan women. The channel fills a void left by the Taliban's restrictions on education, work, and leisure activities for women. It offers a range of programming, from light entertainment to discussions on women's rights, health, and taboo topics.
rom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hours a day into homes across“For us, it’s a way to provide hope,” said Hamida Aman, the Afghanistan-born, Swiss-raised entrepreneur behind the satellite channel Begum TV. “For women in Afghanistan, television is their only window into the world.
“We can talk about taboo topics that we wouldn’t be able to talk about if we were based in Kabul, such as contraception or homosexuality,” said Aman. “And it also allows us to broadcast music and entertainment series barred in Afghanistan.” “Every day for the past three years I’ve felt that someone is going to call me to tell me that the Taliban have shut down the broadcast,” said Aman. “But we’ve kept going for three years, though it’s been three years of living under this constant pressure.”
She described Begum TV, whose work is funded through an NGO, as a means of confronting the gaping voids that had followed the Taliban’s return to power; from the educational programming that offers young women a chance to keep up with their studies, to the health-based information aimed at tackling the
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