Shamsia Hassani filled the streets of Kabul with her melancholic veiled women. Today, her protest art continues, although far from her homeland. When she saw it, she couldn't believe it. The impact ...

Shamsia Hassani's street art breaks the stereotype of the passive Muslim woman. In fact, her graffiti art is giving Afghan women a voice and is inspiring thousands around the world.

ISTANBUL — Thirty-year-old Shamsia Hassani is widely recognized as Afghanistan’s first, if not only, female graffiti artist. Being a graffiti artist anywhere in the world is a challenge, but ...

Shamsia Hassani, a painter who teaches at Kabul University, is also a graffiti artist who ventures into the streets of Afghanistan to create murals. Using the walls of abandoned buildings damaged ...

Armed with cans of spray paint, 28-year-old Afghan graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani ventures into the streets of Kabul to create feminist murals on the walls of abandoned, bombed-out buildings. She ...

Shamsia Hassani The untitled piece unveiled at the event features an Afghan woman playing music above a neighborhood in Afghanistan. It contains elements seen in many of her works.

Shamsia Hassani. Her art gives Afghan women a different face, a face with power, ambitions, and willingness to achieve goals. The woman character used in her artworks portrays a human being who is ...

Yet Shamsia Hassani’s determination to continue developing the art form across a city in turmoil, as well as campaign for women’s rights, has resulted in her being nominated for a prize in ...

This work of street art was made by Shamsia Hassani, widely known as the first prominent woman street artist in Afghanistan.Hassani was born in 1988 in Tehran to Afghan parents, eventually moving ...

Shamsia Hassani had already reached a certain level of international success over the past years. As Afghanistan's first female graffiti and street artist, known for her bold promotion of women's ...

Dorian Jones caught up with the 30-year-old Hassani at an international street art festival in Istanbul and has more on her story. Shamsia Hassani is widely recognized as Afghanistan's first ...