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Afghan tattoo artist challenges social taboos

Reza Shirmohammadi
December 25, 2019

After a female tattoo artist in Afghanistan opened her mobile shop, she started receiving threats from Islamist groups. Body tattoos are looked down upon in Afghanistan's conservative society, as Islam, generally, forbids pictorial depiction.

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