Shamsia Hassani
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
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It’s good to see even in a place like Kabul, women like Shamsia Hassani exsist. She is breaking ground in Afghanistan as one of its first women in graffiti. Her thematic use of the burqa is really catching the attention of the art world as well as in the Islamic culture, Hassani combats these claims by pointing to the larger society related issues within her art.