Dancer

Fahima Mirzaie

Whirling-dervish dancer

Born 1996 · AfghanistanAfghanistan

Fahima Mirzaie is a dancer, born in 1996 in Afghanistan.

Biography

Fahima Mirzaie is an Afghan activist and Sufi dancer who gained global attention as the first female Sufi dancer in Afghanistan in modern Afghan history. She founded the mixed-gender, female-led Sufi dance group Shohod Arefan in Kabul in 2019, and was forced to flee Afghanistan in 2021. Mirzaie was named to the BBC's 100 Women in 2021.

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