Perwana Nazif talks to Timothy P.A. Cooper and Abeera Arif Bashir of London’s Pirate Modernity radio programme about their search for some of Afghanistan’s funkiest sounds on tape
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Last Afghan Standing
‘We were the only Afghans in Sedona’ - photographer Negine Jasmine looks back on growing up Afghan in Arizona and coming to terms with her culture and heritage
Wild is the Wind
In search of the world’s oldest windmills, Jippe Kreuning - the son of a Dutch miller - embarks on a journey to Khorasan in northeastern Iran, along with a Persian phrasebook
Rug of War
Elnaz Bokharachi reflects on the phenomenon of war rugs in Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora, as well as the longstanding tradition of rug weaving amongst the Iranian peoples
Kabul Dreams
Kicking out the jams, kranking up the volume: Sulyman Qardash of Kabul Dreams talks punk, rocking in Afghanistan, receiving threats from the Taliban, and getting friendly with Metallica
The Fruit of Our Labour
‘This is a new Afghanistan – one in which the camera’s gaze is not a metaphor for power inequities, but a tool through which power and politics can be debated’
The Patience Stone
French-Afghan novelist and director Atiq Rahimi’s haunting, metaphorical tale of love, war, and liberation in modern-day Afghanistan