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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

On Iron Rails: Glimpses of Post Taliban Afghanistan

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

Afghanistan Robert Tompkins

Salesgirl Salma Salat shows one of the outfits for sale at her shop in the Women's Bazaar or Bazaar-e-Zanana in Kabul.

KABUL, Feb 17, 2004 - With their all-enveloping blue burqas thrown back from their faces, the thr...

Afghanistan AFP/Madeleine Coorey

Medical escorts at work.

Medical Escorts: Always Intense

Whether on business or pleasure the wise traveler to exotic lands should prepare for all conceiva...

Afghanistan Joshua Samuel Brown

Afghan woman, Mehrya, is one of 13 trained by the French non-governmental organization Aina (mirror) as a camerawoman.

Afghan camerawoman turns lens on post-Taliban life

Two years after the fall of the Taliban regime which forced her to view the world through the mes...

Afghanistan AFP/Sardar Ahmad

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French bakery offers future to Afghan minority children

French owners Jacques and Ariane Hiriart built Le Pelican cafe from scratch to educate children f...

Afghanistan AFP/Lynne O'Donnell

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Driving through central Afghanistan

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

Afghanistan AFP/Lynne O'Donnell

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Afghanistan on the Web

Afghan Search Engine . Afghanistan Online A good place to start for general information and news ...

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Valentine's Day in Kabul

Love is tough in Afghanistan...

Afghanistan AFP

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

KABUL, June 15, 2003 - From a house in one of Kabul's relatively unscathed districts, Afghanistan...

Afghanistan AFP/Mike Patterson

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Afghan women steer into male world of motoring

Kabul, Jan 26, 2003 - With one white-knuckled hand on the steering wheel, and another trembling t...

Afghanistan AFP/Herve Bar

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