An open manuscript: two pages of small Persian script framed by gold-flecked margins.
Rumi’s Masnavi in the hand of Mir AliMir Ali HaraviPublic domain

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Articles in Dari on Afghan history, culture and letters, and a reading list of the reporting Dr. Roashan followed while writing Country Corner.

In Dari · به زبان دری

Articles

4 articles

تاریخچه مکتب حبیبیه

A History of Habibia School

مخصتری در بارهٔ تاریخچهٔ پرفراز و نشیب مکتب حبیبیه 🇦🇫 بازنشر: ۱۹ جنوری ۲۰۲۲ - تکزاس Naser Oria لیسهٔ حبیبیه اولین و سابقه دارترین…

Author unknown8 min read

استاد یوسف کهزاد که بود

Who Was Ustad Yusuf Kohzad?

آیا میدانید شعر آهنگ "دیشب به خدا خمار بودم‌" از کیست؟ شعر: کهزاد - کمپوز: شهید نینواز - صدا:‌ ساربان یوسف کهزاد هنرمندی که…

Naser Oria7 min read

تمدن و فرهنگ

Civilization and Culture

هرکسی از ظنّ خود شد یار من/ وز دورن من نجست اسرار من نویسنده: دکتور زمان ستانیزی؛ استاد پوهنتون دولتی کلیفورنیا «تمدن» و «فرهنگ»…

Dr. Zaman Stanizai6 min read

Reading list

Further reading

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The Associated Press

Despite billions in aid, Afghans can’t find work

Hundreds of men, some on crutches, all wearing tattered clothing, gather shortly before dawn at major intersections throughout Kabul and other Afghan cities. Displaying primitive tools such as a level or a trowel, they seek labor that is often backbreaking, always temporary and will earn…

Inside Story

Is Killing Taliban a Good Idea?

Intensified military activity has failed, argue John Braithwaite and Ali Wardak. It’s time for a ceasefire

Guernica

Smoke Screen: Burn Pits in Afghanistan

Their shelves hold Army pants, boots and knives sold to them, they say, by Afghans working on the base, gifts to them from American soldiers but more likely stolen. Either way, soldiers confiscate these items on sight. The shopkeepers sit in the shade watching traffic…