Peaces of Afghanistan

Below are the impressions and thoughts of a young western woman working with a foreign NGO in Afghanistan. Often, the posts will be raw and unfiltered, as I am struggling to make sense of the things I hear and see around me. I mean to find the peaces (not the “peace”, as there is never just one peace), the beauty, the diversity of a society which has long been presented to us as a backwards haven for religious fanatics and violence. Readers are encouraged to help with pertinent comments.

Monday, 19 December 2011

Sometimes rules have to be broken

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They have that fearful and mischievous look of schoolgirls who know they are breaking a rule but aren’t really sorry about it. Before enter...
Monday, 12 December 2011

Mission impossible: disguising a western woman in a chadari

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"Thanks" to a high-profile assassination, my supervisor decided that I should have a chadari, just in case of emergency. While th...

On dating and proper dress code

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For a few days, I am sharing my room with a colleague from another province, a university-educated woman in her twenties living in the sout...

Come to my house, have some tea!

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It's been a while since I wrote. Seems my eternal problem with writing rears its head again. So many times in my life, under the influe...
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Sunday, 31 July 2011

Proper car arrangements

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Today I found out what is considered the proper seating arrangement in a car of 4+1 seats when the passengers are two women and two men. It...
Saturday, 30 July 2011

The anonymous women

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A chadari is a traditional Afghan female garment, used to cover the entire body from head to toe, including the face, leaving only a small ...
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