Alizada was due to give a speech on the conditions for women living in Afghanistan at the January 22

The Canadian government has denied the Afghan artist Hanifa Alizada a visa to travel to the country, where she was due to speak and show her work at The Shrinking World of Photography symposium next month. According to the Ottawa Citizen , Alizada, a photographer and instructor in the fine arts department at Kabul University, and Gholam Reza Sepehri, her fiancé and frequent artistic collaborator, had their visa applications turned down by the Canadian High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan. (The Canadian embassy in Kabul does not grant visas, so all Afghan applicants are directed to apply through Islamabad.)
I did travel to USA, Europe, and south Asian countries, Alizada told the  Citizen . I never overstayed and never got refused by any embassy. What can be the problem new york hotel casino las vegas with my travel history? Early next year she is scheduled to travel to Denmark and India.
Alizada was due to give a speech on the conditions for women living in Afghanistan at the January 22–25 symposium. Her photographs, which often make literal the persecution women face there by showing close-ups of their bodies crisscrossed by ropes and strings pulled tight, were slated to be shown concurrently at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPOA) and the SAW Gallery .
My reaction is surprise and extreme disappointment because new york hotel casino las vegas Hanifa had travelled relatively freely in the past and participated in international exhibitions, Tony Martins, SPAO s director of development, told the Citizen . Hanifa’s new york hotel casino las vegas desire to come to Canada to exhibit her work was a key factor in the development of the entire symposium. The event is being co-organized by the Nobel Women’s Initiative and MATCH International new york hotel casino las vegas Women’s new york hotel casino las vegas Fund.
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