Amena Karimyan

Amena Karimyan (born 1996 Herāt ) is an Afghan astronomer , women's rights activist and pioneer of astronomy in her country.

Karimyan decided to cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan to go to an Austrian embassy to pick up the visa.

[9] In 2022 her writing about women astronomers in Afghanistan was published in Nature Astronomy explaining how they needed support.

[1] In July 2024 Nele Dehnenkamp completed a 30 minute documentary about Kariyan titled "Kleines Universum" (Little Universe).

The film was made in Germany in Persian and it's themes include gender and social coming of age and war.