In 1928, Elizabeth Naim Ziai, a young Norman woman, married the cousin of the King of Afghanistan. The couple settled in Kabul and she intended to live an idle life. But a year after their marriage, the king was dethroned by a backward rebel. From then on, nothing would go as planned. Her little-known adventure allows us to revisit a time, between the end of the 1920s and the mid-1960s, when Afghanistan opened up and the fate of women improved considerably…
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THE OTHER QUEEN ELIZABETH
In 1927, Elisabeth, a Breton, married Naim in France, a cousin of Amanullah Khan, the progressive king of Afghanistan, whom she had met in Saint-Malo. After the birth of their son, Hakim, a year later, they decided to return to Kabul. They stopped off in Malta, Aden (Yemen), then Bombay (India), where they had to stay for a few days before reaching the Afghan capital.
They will stay there for a year. Because, there, Amanullah Khan, this modern king, who advocates female emancipation, gives up his place, under pressure from Habibullah Ghazi, nicknamed Bacha-e Saqâo, a conservative and bloodthirsty rebel. On December 5, 1929, the couple finally sets off for Kabul. The country, then led by Nadir Shah, continues to severely restrict the freedom of women, forced to wear the chadri, this full veil that bars the face with a grid. Elisabeth will then fight for their condition…
A Frenchwoman in Kabul, Sunday September 15 at 11:00 p.m. on France 5
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