Some women in Kabul, Afghanistan have come to a hilltop in to relax and perform yoga. They are led by Fakhria Momtaz, who runs the city’s first yoga studio. Instead of practicing the exercises inside their homes to avoid...
A session at Kabul’s first yoga studio. Opened by Fakhria Momtaz, in 2017, the center helps women build mental and physical strength. Photo UNAMA / Fardin Waezi. Source: UNAMA NEWS
Fakhria Momtaz, prominent Afghan business woman talks about the suffering of mental health problems being a silent war in Afghanistan.
Fakhria Momtaz opened Kabul’s first yoga studio in 2015. Now more than 50 women come to Momtaz Yoga Centre every day. As well as yoga classes, there are also zumba, wushu and karate classes, all taught by female Afghan...
Live recording from a sound meditation at Three Jewels in New York as a benefit to Fakhria Momtaz, founder of Momtaz Yoga Studio in Kabul, Afghanistan. Vocals, Percussion: Emily Shanny Vibraphone: Jake Chapman Trumpet: Edo Gur
In 2018, less than a quarter of photographs published in major media outlets were taken by female photojournalists. Women by Women aims to demonstrate the importance of showing diverse perspectives in photography; female as well as male; local as well as...
The 16th event of Startup Grind at Kabul – Afghanistan hosted Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz. Ms. Fakhria is a social and cultural activist, filmmaker, photographer, yoga trainer, winner of Bibi Khadija and Success Woman awards and finally a successful businesswoman;...
Tahmina is an award-winning freelance photographer with a masters degree in Visual Art from Kabul University, where she was taught by the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Massoud Hossaini. Her documentary-style photography expresses the lifestyle, achievements and challenges of women who...
This event of Startup Grind Hosted Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz. Ms. Fakhria is a social and cultural activist, filmmaker, photographer, yoga trainer, winner of Bibi Khadija and Success Woman awards and finally a successful businesswoman; is one of the inspiring...
In the month of March which is time for the celebration of international women’s day; Startup Grind Afghanistan recognizes the value and contribution of Afghan women in both economy and social life of Afghanistan by hosting a role model...
Fakhria Momtaz knew even as a child that she, somehow, was born knowing yoga. Even though growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan, there was no connection with yoga anywhere. Now she runs the only yoga centre in war-torn Afghanistan. She...
Kabul, Afghanistan – At the Momtaz Yoga Center, Afghanistan’s only yoga studio in Kabul, Fakhria Momtaz gives her daughter advice on how to lead a class. Froohar Momtaz, 18, will soon teach a group of women the positions and stretches which originated...
An Afghan woman, Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz developed a “yoga application” which has made its way to the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) competition in the US. “I have a yoga club and a technology company and I...
A mobile application developed by an Afghan woman, Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz, has find its way to the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) competition in the United States. The GIST Tech-I Competition is an annual competition for science...
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Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz is the CEO of Momtaz Host, an IT services company in Kabul, Afghanistan. Fakhria is also an accomplished photographer, mom of four, the first woman to open a yoga studio in Kabul, and my Afghan sister...
Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz has been at home on the mat since she was a little girl. Raised in a family of athletes in Kabul, she regularly practiced her gymnastics routines at home. As a teenager, she was displaced by...
Women and Health -CHERAGH MEDICAL TV Interview with Fakhria Momtaz
Fakhria Ebrahimi Momtaz founded the first women’s yoga club in Kabul, Afghanistan, two years ago. Momtaz told Euronews that the sport has helped Afghan women “improve their morale”. “We must first make peace for ourselves before we can make...
Fakhria Mumtaz opened Kabul’s first all-women yoga studio in 2015. Now, her startup is expanding with help from USAID’s Afghanistan Workforce Development Program, which connected Fakhria to training in business and project management.
Fakhria Mumtaz opened Kabul’s first all-women yoga studio in 2015. Now, her startup is expanding with help from USAID’s Afghanistan Workforce Development Program, which connected Mumtaz to training in business and project management. Source: Creative Associates Int’l
We speak to Fakhria Momtaz, the founder of Kabul’s first yoga centre, about the challenges and criticism she has faced, as well as the support she has received Negin Khpalwak, a 20-year -old Afghan musician, often finds herself at odds with...
Fakhria Ibrahimi Momtaz founded the first yoga club for women in Kabul. Women come to her classes to improve their self-esteem, she tells Euronews. …
Calm and quiet, taking deep breaths and focusing on their bodies, a group of Afghan women go through their yoga paces at a new studio in Kabul.
Fakhria Momtaz teaches yoga for Afghan women at a yoga club in Kabul Afghanistan on November 01, 2016. The first yoga center has opened in the capital and provides an opportunity for Afghan women to work on their mental...
From the inside of a bakery an unusual view of the daily lives of Afghan women – unveiled and uninhibited. Fakhria Ibrahimi lives in Kabul and is from Wardack province. She has worked on community-based documentary photography projects in...
Source: First yoga center for women opens in Kabul – Anadolu Agency
Afghan Media Productions (AMP), AAM’s Kabul-based office, recently launched Breadwinners, a new radio series profiling female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and their role in the country’s economy.