I remember when I was a kid, the BBC Farsi radio station (we hadn’t bought a TV yet) announced…
KabulReads reborn as Bulbul Sher Shah Rahim, the founding director of KabulReads (an online bookstore in Afghanistan), was sitting in…
Why forgetting them is not an option As a European war grabs the world’s attention, the silence around a terrorist…
People often cite interpreters as the group of Afghans most vulnerable to Taliban reprisal in Afghanistan. However, Afghans who have…
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~…
Five years ago, I was introduced to Nadia Hashimi’s books by a friend. At the time, uninspired by the books…