My name is Hamed Mir Alam. I am from Afghanistan, where I was born and raised before moving abroad a few years ago. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in English Studies and later earned my Master’s degree in International Management in Austria.
I see myself as a student of culture. I have always been deeply interested in people and traditions, and how they can either make or break individuals and entire nations. I have long viewed culture as the collective “software” of humanity and society. It teaches us how to live, how to treat others—our spouses, our children, and ourselves—and it defines what we value and what we live for.
This fascination is what drove me to closely examine and study my own culture, the Afghan way of life, and its profound influence on our people. Unfortunately, we are living through dark times. As you read this, half of our society—our women and girls—is being excluded, traumatized, and erased from public life. This is why I have decided to write: to raise my voice, however small it may seem, against this injustice.
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