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Afghan Hospitality

Quandi-gul

Quandi-gul

Quandi-gul

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While in Kabul, Afghanistan a friend Ellen and I frequently walked around the Demazang District neighborhood where our guesthouse was located. One afternoon as we paused to photograph a small boy chasing a rooster through a family graveyard, an elderly woman stood at the top of a small hill, shouting in Dari and gesturing excitedly. At first I thought that she was angry with us. Perhaps we had offended her by trespassing or photographing the green Martyr's flag fluttering above a grave marker. I had left on our unescorted walk filled with bravado. Now out of sight of the guesthouse all of my mother's pre-trip warnings rushed at me like a pack of wilder beasts. "Chai", she shouted. And then I understood. In a traditional display of Afghan hospitality, Quandi-Gul had invited us in for tea.

Published on 5/24/08

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