Silence and Condemnation: A Glimpse Into Kabul’s Hospitals
Legs tremble, hands shake, and eyes wander. No one is calm, and only a few people in the hospital waiting...
City Stories
Lost in a Hungry City: Kabul’s Forgotten Slums
Kabul’s face has changed in many ways in recent years. Areas such as Shahr-e-Naw and Qala-e-Fathullah continue to expand commercially....
The City, Darkness, and the Subjects
I walk down an alley—quiet, deserted, so silent that it makes you doubt whether any living soul exists within it....
Burning in the Cold: Kabul’s Winters
The cold is winning. Its victory is almost absolute—so absolute that it burns the bones and mocks the fierce heat...
Kabul: A City of Dead Ends
Someone accompanies me from afar. At first, he appears no larger than the tree he has just passed, but as...
Poverty: When Selling a Pen Becomes the Price of a Dream
Poverty is defined as a condition in which individuals lack access to basic necessities of life and do not have...
Kabul: A City of Book-Killings
In Nazi Germany, a notorious ceremony was held known as the Book Burnings—an event in which any text deemed contrary...
“Fear and Silence”
A group of young girls walk in the midday sun, backpacks on their shoulders and books in their hands. No...
Kabul: A Barren Wasteland
Reading a city is, in truth, experiencing it. City-reading cannot exist beyond experience itself; otherwise, it becomes an attempt to...
The City of Darkness
No one remembers a time when Kabul was a city “without problems,” even if we overlook the political instability and...