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The celebration that the Minister of Culture and Information organised for the International Women’s Day was nicely put together. The walls of the meeting room are covered with portraits of the important figures who have contributed to the history of Afghanistan. The portait of a bespectacled man with white rimmed glasses kept staring at me […]
Lunch at Qaraqul is a great pleasure. It is a restaurant where I always like to go back to. The ashak – a kind of ravioli stuffed with spinach – are mouth-watering, chicken is perfectly marinated and even the Kabuli pulao – the traditional Afghan dish made of rice and lamb – is less oily […]
I am on the back seat of a taxi. It is dark and the roads are covered with a thick, inexorable layer of ice. The taxi driver is rushing through the frozen lanes holding the steering wheel with one hand and a mobile phone with the other. In any other circumstance I would have reacted […]
SMS conversation: F : “Like the inbetweenness of Kabul airport. I am chewing gum with uncovered head while men next to me are praying.” T: “Bulletin material!” So here comes a blog post – with a special dedication to Tyrell Mayfield. — For someone who has spent a significant part of her professional life reading, […]
If I were a song writer I would celebrate Kabul with a Blues. And I would call my song Burqa Blues. It would be about melancholy and resilience. It would be about strength, pain, loneliness. And about love, of course. It would be about the violent light that makes this city unforgettable. It would be […]
A beautiful woman with very short hair, a red lipstick and a thin cigarette in her hand cooked for us shorwa-e-gosht yesterday. It was one of those rare moments of trust and familiarity that will stay in our memory for a long time. Being invited for lunch at someone’s house is not the most common […]
In countries at war, childhood is a luxury that not everybody can afford. While walking around Kabul it is impossible not to notice group of street children at every corner. Industrious, sad, deprived of the lightness that should mark their age. They clean windshields, collect garbage, do deliveries pushing wheelbarrows. They burn incense over bits […]
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― Rumi
In the course of our research in May 2011, we have had the chance to meet a number of inspiring people who contribute to the re-construction of Afghan civil society through cultural practices. Here is an excerpt about the Foundation for Culture and Civil Society from our article on Creative Kabul published on Domus in December 2011. “In […]
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