| The Afghan Alphabet | |
| Director: | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
| Music: | Mohammad Reza Darvishi |
| Country: | Iran |
The Afghan Alphabet (Persian: الفبای افغان|translit=Alefbay-e afghan) is a 2002 documentary by Mohsen Makhmalbaf showing the life of children in the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by the Taliban regime.[1]
In 2002 about 3 million Afghan refugees were living in Iran. From those about 700,000 were Afghan children who were not allowed to go to Iranian schools because of their illegal status in Iran.[2] After this movie was made, this subject became controversial and finally the Islamic Consultative Assembly passed a bill to allow Afghani children to go to school and it resulted in 500,000 kids getting education.