Afghan Stories

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June 23, 2013

After 13 years of war, the US will leave Afghanistan next year.   There will be many conversations about the country’s political and military future.  But we’re taking a different look at Afghanistan - through the lens of Afghan fiction: films, poetry and folk tales, and an interview with “The Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini on his new book. 

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Afghan women are complicated. They pray, have affairs, and get mad at their children. But it seems one thing binds them — the landay. Poet and journalist Eliza Griswold went to Afghanistan in 2012 learn more about a type of poem that Afghan women have been sharing since 1700 BCE.

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  • "Transatlanticism" by Death Cab for Cutie
  • "Ingenue" by Atoms for Peace
  • "Tamer Animal/Other Side" by Atoms for Peace
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June 23, 2013
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May 20, 2022