Birth of a Girl Among desert-roaming nomads one evening the downcast sickly-yellow Sun collected her wares, gathered her skirts and hurried towards the dark The tent was black, the woman in pain, her soul on fire, consumed, yet cold Once more, it’s a girl—What an end to nine months of fear and hope Not aContinue reading “Birth of a Girl. a poem by Fatema Akhtar. translated by Bänoo Zan”
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A story from a tired land. words and photo gallery by Ahmad Ali Fidakar
A story from a tired land Once upon a time, nearly two decades ago, a miracle occurred at the center of crisis and turmoil in Ghazni province in a tired land when a humourful and playful boy was born into a traditional and populous family whose souls and minds for years had been harnessed byContinue reading “A story from a tired land. words and photo gallery by Ahmad Ali Fidakar”
The Torch That We Never Saw. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh
The Torch That We Never Saw (A prayer for Afghans and Afghanistan after brutal Taliban advance while American soldiers and diplomats are leaving Afghanistan.) The water hit us like the hard rocks. The darkness engulfed us by the violent waves when we heard the boat breaking and we saw the light of the bullets towardsContinue reading “The Torch That We Never Saw. A poem by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
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