Nan Factory
While walking down the streets of Kabul last week I stared a little too inquisitively into a nan store/factory pumping out the long, flat bread that is eaten with every meal in Afghanistan. The man...
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Disaster Services
Yesterday Megan and I taught CPR to a group of University Students who have taken it upon themselves to form a Disaster Response team and are trying to amass skills and knowledge that will be of use to...
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Hardware Shopping
As it turns out, Jalalabad has no Home Depot. Not even an ACE Hardware. So, when I wanted to purchase an arc welder to make furniture and art out of old ammo cases and bullet casings, Mehrab took me...
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Ladies Night…. Or Afternoon
The park in Jalalabad is, like so many other public venues, open to men only. However, Wednesday is special. Wednesday is Ladies Day. So Jenn, Kellie and I decided to take a soccer ball and spend a few...
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I was playing around with my stick welding skills when I attracted the interest of one of our security guards. He wandered up, trying to look nonchalant, to check out what I was doing that was making...
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Traffic fLaws
Ostensibly, in Afghanistan, traffic drives on the right hand side of the road. However, this rule is leniently applied. In Afghanistan the road is used for driving, and if the left hand side of the...
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Tile Porn
Presented here for your visual entertainment and aesthetic enlightenment are images from Herat’s Friday Mosque, one of the gems of Islamic Architecture.
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Of Lions and Horses in the Panshir
Last Friday morning we headed off at first light from the muddy streets of Kabul. We wound our way north, past Bagram, where ISAF is headquartered, and took a sharp turn east in the village of Jebal...
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Etymological Weaponry
Two representative symbols of Afghanistan, grenades and pomegranates, come from the same etymological root. We discovered yesterday that the word “grenade” is taken from the French “pome-grenate.”...
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Entering the FOB
If you search for Jalalabad on googlemaps only one road shows up, Hwy A01, the Asian Highway, a.k.a. Kabul-Jalalabad-Torkham Highway. That road is the main drag of Jalalabad City, sporting twoish...
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