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15 August kabul fall. non-fiction, photography by Ahmad Ali Fadakar

15 August, Kabul Falls. I don’t see Kabul anymore. Kabul doesn’t have its own blue sky anymore. And the girls of this city can no longer wear their flowery dresses and skirts. They’ve forgotten their laughter. It was a dark day for Kabul and its people. I didn’t think at all that the TalibanContinue reading “15 August kabul fall. non-fiction, photography by Ahmad Ali Fadakar”

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”