Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan…
Record stores, Mad Men furniture, and pencil skirts — when Kabul had rock ‘n’ roll, not rockets.
General McChrystal to Greg Mortenson in a June 23rd e-mail, as he traveled from Kabul to Washington to be fired by President Obama. (Via The New York Times | “Unlikely Tutor Giving Military Afghan Advice”)
A testament to the power of humanitarian work and literature in bringing change, or at least inspiring those with the power to change, who I like to believe is each and every one of us.
An Afghan child who fixes potholes in a road between Kabul and Bagram and depends on tips from passing motorists waits for business in Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
That shovel is almost bigger than the kid!
LEARNING CURVE A US Army soldier looks over a note containing Pashto translations of frequently-used phrases June 14, 2010 in rural Dand District, just south of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo: Chris Hondros / Getty Images via the Boston Globe)
ALL YOU CAN WHEAT Farmers collect their harvest near Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. (Photo: Dusan Vranic / AP via the Wall St. Journal)
Beautiful picture. It looks like a painting.
Photographer A. K. Kimoto in writing to photojournalist James W. Delano (via “Untold Suffering: Opium in Afghanistan”)
Mr. Kimoto, may you rest in peace. The world just lost another voice of hope.
Hazrat Ali Mosque, Afghanistan
Photograph by Shashwat Saraf, My Shot
This Month in Photo of the Day: Travel
Here, a woman passes the Hazrat Ali mosque (the “Blue Mosque”) in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, where deep ethnic and religious divides are briefly bridged as Sunni and Shiite alike come to pray.
A sign at a U.S. forward operating base in Zabul, Afghanistan (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
An Afghan shopkeeper cleans after a busy day in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of the ancient Balkh province, during celebrations of the Afghan new year called “Nowruz.” The pre-Islamic festival is celebrated in Afghanistan annually, and people from across the country gather in the city. (Photo: Shah Maral / Getty Images via USA Today)
