{"id":18395,"date":"2026-07-25T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/25\/taliban-official-visit-malaysia-national-library-cultural-education\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:30:16","slug":"taliban-official-visit-malaysia-national-library-cultural-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/25\/taliban-official-visit-malaysia-national-library-cultural-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Official Visits Malaysia National Library to Discuss Cultural and Educational Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of public libraries under the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Information and Culture visited Malaysia&#8217;s National Library during his trip to the country. Officials at the Malaysia National Library introduced the institution as one of their country&#8217;s most important library resources and a key center for research. They emphasized its role in preserving thousands of religious and scientific books and journals. Rafeeullah Samim expressed gratitude for the warm reception by the library\u2019s officials and stated that libraries worldwide play a fundamental role in expanding knowledge, safeguarding religious and scientific works, and promoting a culture of reading. The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Information and Culture holds responsibility for managing public libraries in Afghanistan, an institution that in recent years has faced serious challenges with public access to diverse educational and cultural resources alongside extensive cultural restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s public libraries head visits Malaysia National Library, highlighting its role in preserving knowledge and promoting reading culture worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}