Photographer Steve McCurry has been photographing Afghanistan since the 1970s.
His photographs portray a country which despite so much conflict is still a stunningly beautiful place.
In a country where ‘honour’ killings and forced marriages are rife there was a belief that the Western occupation would help bring in laws which would protect women and girls, and give them greater rights then under the brutal Taliban regime.
When Afghan workers at the Bagram Air Base saw our troops put copies of the Holy Quran and other Islamic religious works into a pile of burning trash in a dumpster, they didn’t hesitate. They yelled for them to stop. They ran and “reached into the fire,” according to a Times report, and…
Skateistan: To Live and Skate in Kabul is a film made by director Orlando von Einsiedel.
In a country with innumerable problems, Skateistan represents an oasis where children can be children and build the kinds of cross-cultural…