Kabul

On Iron Rails: Glimpses of Post Taliban Afghanistan

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:50:32 +0000

Review of The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad, translated by Ingrid Christophersen.

Kabul shopping

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:58:39 +0000

KABUL, Feb 17, 2004 - With their all-enveloping blue burqas thrown back from their faces, the three women shoppers laugh as they examine the sexy lingerie on sale at a west Kabul boutique, enjoying...

Medical Escorts: Always Intense

Anonymous — Mon, 01 May 2006 06:20:20 +0000

Whether on business or pleasure the wise traveler to exotic lands should prepare for all conceivable contingencies; fortune, after all, favors the prepared. But dame fate is never a more capricious...

Afghan camerawoman turns lens on post-Taliban life

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:33:29 +0000

Two years after the fall of the Taliban regime which forced her to view the world through the mesh window of her burqa, Mehrya is more often seen these days behind the lens of her digital...

French bakery offers future to Afghan minority children

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:21:42 +0000

French owners Jacques and Ariane Hiriart built Le Pelican cafe from scratch to educate children from Afghanistan's ethnic Hazara community...

Driving through central Afghanistan

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:39:04 +0000

Afghanistan, via war and election, by minibus...

Afghanistan on the Web

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:30:12 +0000

Afghan Search Engine . Afghanistan Online A good place to start for general information and news on Afghanistan. Radio Afghanistan A neutral radio service based in Toronto, Canada, operated by...

Valentine's Day in Kabul

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:42:14 +0000

Love is tough in Afghanistan...

Afghanistan's first private radio station takes to the air waves

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:59:45 +0000

KABUL, June 15, 2003 - From a house in one of Kabul's relatively unscathed districts, Afghanistan's first commercial radio station is taking the city by storm with a mix of music and chat by male and...

Afghan women steer into male world of motoring

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:28:03 +0000

Kabul, Jan 26, 2003 - With one white-knuckled hand on the steering wheel, and another trembling the gearstick into reverse, a young Afghan woman quickly tugs back her veil for a rear view as she...