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...
Spotlight
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...
Frail Urban Acts of Defiance
In recent days, a video has circulated on social media showing an incident on a Kabul street: ordinary, unarmed people...
The Street-Vending Crisis
Street vending has long been one of the common forms of labor in Afghanistan. Old photographs of city markets from...
The City and the Act of Reading
What does it mean to “read” a city? Why must a city be read? And who is capable of reading...