When the Taliban seized power in 2021, the women of Afghanistan’s hard-won rights were swiftly erased. Bans on education, employment, and even access to public spaces reflect not incidental repression but a deliberate policy of gender apartheid.
As the Taliban celebrate their fourth-year reign of terror in Afghanistan, the country suffers from an unprecedented episode of political, social, cultural and economic crises in its modern history.
This assessment of six roadmaps by top political currents opposing the Taliban, presented at the Cambridge Afghanistan Series (CAS-III), is carried out by David Loyn, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.
On 3 July, Russia became the first country to formally recognise[i] the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan by accepting its ambassador—marking a significant departure from its stance during the Taliban’s previous rule, between 1996 and 2001.
A collaborative programme with the UK’s Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) and Mosaic Afghanistan—now rebranded as “Mosaic Global Foundation”—empowering vulnerable girls deprived of education in Afghanistan
A collaborative event aimed at understanding the challenges facing Afghanistan’s education sector—and identifying strategies to empower vulnerable girls and counter radicalisation—was recently held in London.
This interview with Zalmai Nishat, the Founder and Executive Chair of Mosaic Global Foundation was originally published in The Narrative 360 on 4 July 2025. This is the second part of ’10 Questions for’ with Zalmai Nishat
This opinion piece by Emeritus Professor Amin Saikal—an advisory board member of the Mosaic Global Foundation and participant in its Cambridge Afghanistan Series (CAS)—was originally published in The Age on 1 July 2025
In recent years, Central Asia has emerged as a critical geostrategic crossroads, poised between the ambitions of global powers and the aspirations of its diverse societies.
This opinion piece by Zalmai Nishat, the Founder and Executive Chair of Mosaic Global Foundation was originally published in The Narrative 360 on 24 June 2025.
This opinion piece by Emeritus Professor Amin Saikal, a member of the advisory board of Mosaic Global Foundation and a member of its Cambridge Afghanistan Series (CAS) was originally published in The Age on 19 June 2025.
As the world grapples with mounting geopolitical uncertainty, the Central Asian states, now well into the third decade of their independence, stand at a pivotal crossroads.
In an era of increasing migration and displacement, integrating refugees into society remains one of the UK’s most pressing challenges. True integration goes beyond language acquisition it encompasses ...
For a century, these demands have remained on the margins of politics in Afghanistan, but within the past three decades (1992 to present), these demands have become almost mainstream.
Mosaic Afghanistan is collaborating with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) on the ‘Amplification of Civil Society Voices of Afghanistan’ project. As part of this project, TBI has invited members of civil society ...
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, held a two-day UN-sponsored summit in Doha between 18-19 of February. Present in this summit were more than two dozen nations’ special envoys on Afghanistan and a number of international organisations.
In an unprecedented move, the British Parliament has started looking into the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan by holding a Parliamentary Inquiry on Gender Apartheid.
A meeting was convened with representatives from the British Parliament to address the pressing need for the establishment of a civil society organisation in Afghanistan.
In the wake of the devastating earthquakes that shook Herat, Afghanistan, on 7 October 2023, Mosaic Afghanistan sprang into action, proving to be a lifeline for the affected communities.
