Sumaia Sediqi

Sumaia Sediqi, also known as Raha, is an Afghan entrepreneur and women's rights advocate. Born in Kabul in 2001, she began studying business management but was forced to interrupt her education after the Taliban banned women from universities. In 2021, she began documenting life under Taliban rule through voice messages sent with her friend Behishta Rahmaty to journalist Caroline Gillet. These recordings became the France Inter podcasts Inside Kabul and Outside Kabul, later adapted into an animated series by the BBC and France Télévisions, and into an immersive installation in 2025. Sediqi fled Afghanistan in 2023 and now lives in Strasbourg, where her family joined her in 2024. She co-founded DOR Afghanistan, a fashion brand promoting Afghan heritage and women’s economic empowerment. A graduate of the SINGA program and HEC Paris Launchpad, she continues to develop her impact-driven entrepreneurial work.

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Théâtre de la Concorde
novembernov 14 – 19

Kubra Khademi, Caroline Gillet, Sumaia Sediqi
One’s own room inside Kabul

Performance

One's own room inside Kabul is a visual and sound-based work by Caroline Gillet and Kubra Khademi, offering a sensory immersion in an Afghan living room. The audience follows the thoughts of Raha (Sumaia Sediqi), a young woman cut off from the world in the wake of the Taliban takeover.