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August 23, 2013 | Foreign Policy
Afghanistan: Karzai's Most Dangerous Game
Afghan president Hamid Karzai backs a Wahabist warlord as his successor. Why there's more to his latest move than meets the eye.
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August 11, 2013 | The New York Times
How to Read Afghanistan
Vanessa Gezari, author of a new book on the Afghanistan murder of social scientist Paula Loyd, says the US military still stumbles through an Afghan culture it barely understands.
August 02, 2013 | Foreign Policy
An Oral History of Ending a War: The Stargazer
The first in a series of curated oral histories from Afghans preparing for life after December 2014, when U.S. and NATO combat troops will have left Afghanistan.
July 23, 2013 | The Atlantic
Afghanistan: Soccer, Schools, and Taliban Attacks
U.S. forces are withdrawing, and the Taliban has stepped up the intensity and frequency of its attacks. But has there been enough progress in Kabul that can't be undone? A view from the rooftops.
July 01, 2013 | Poetry
Documentary on Landay Poems Featured on Poetry Foundation's Website
Watch "Snake," a documentary on landay–Afghan poems that belong to no one and to everyone.
June 20, 2013 | PBS NewsHour
Pulling Back the Burka: A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry
Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy, a London-based photographer, set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared among Pashtun women.
June 19, 2013 | PBS NewsHour
Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict
For many Americans, Afghanistan is a country shrouded in mystery, particularly its women, literally shrouded under a burka, silent and seemingly impenetrable.
June 08, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Tajikistan: Water and Stability
Grantee Joshua Kucera talks about Tajikistan's pursuit of stability, which lately is taking one step forward, two steps back.
June 03, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Afghanistan: Poem For Asma
A dedication to Asma, a young Afghan translator who worked last year with Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy in their project on Afghan women poets and then died of a heart ailment.
June 03, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Landay: An Introduction to "Snake," a Film by Seamus Murphy
Photographer Seamus Murphy and poet Eliza Griswold discovered a hidden world after encountering Afghan landays by Pashtun women.
June 03, 2013 | Poetry
Poetry Magazine Podcast: Eliza Griswold, Seamus Murphy on Landays
Poetry magazine editors Christian Wiman and Don Share discuss landay poems from Afghanistan with Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy.
June 03, 2013 | Poetry
Poetry Magazine Devotes June Issue to Afghan Women's Verse
Entire June issue of Poetry is devoted to landays--two-line poems from Afghan Women--and the stories behind them. Journalist/poet Eliza Grizwold photographer Seamus Murphy report.