It is easy to become inured to a country like Afghanistan, to dismiss it as a place endlessly wracked by war, hopeless. It is easy to forget that it is full of human beings who do not fight on one ...
In a northern village, few know of the Al Qaeda leader or September 11. Oqa, Afghanistan—“Never heard of him,” says Mirza the tumbleweed-gatherer. “Was he an Arab? Someone who helped the Taliban?” ...
When freelance journalist Anna Badkhen returned to Afghanistan in 2011, she set her eyes on a region so remote it doesn't exist on Google Maps. In her new book, The World Is A Carpet: Four Seasons in ...