Tag: Afghanistan

  • Photo of the Day

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    This photo came from a story in the Woman of the World section of the Daily Beast.  You can find the whole story here.  Looking at those beautiful determined faces catches my breath. On Thursday, Congress took an unprecedented step to ensure women’s meaningful participation in the stability and democratization of their nation. In passing…

  • Poetry in Afghanistan: New York Times Profiles Matiullah Turab

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    The New York Times features the life and writing of Matiullah Turab. Mr. Turab is a popular poet who performs throughout Afghanistan and works during the day as a metalsmith. With his unflinching words, Mr. Turab, 44, offers a voice for Afghans grown cynical about the war and its perpetrators: the Americans, the Taliban, the Afghan government,…

  • Poets Dream of Peace in Afghanistan

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    In a recent piece Dawn.com focuses on twenty Pashtun poets that get together every week  to share their dreams of peace: Jalalabad is regarded as the heartland of Afghan poetry in a region better known for its warriors than its wordsmiths, on a plateau south of the Himalayan mountains of the Hindu Kush. Meeting every Friday —…

  • An Afghan Designer and His Life-Saving Creation

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    Afghani designer Massoud Hassani wants his work to help save lives in his native country – a place with nearly 10 million land mines.

  • Rural Folk Poetry of Afghanistan

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    Poetry magazine is devoting its entire June issue to Journalist Eliza Griswold and London Filmaker Seamus Murphy’s project which portrays “Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems…” For 10 years, journalist Eliza Griswold reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker. But she was frustrated that…