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A Journey Home: Afghanistan through the Eyes of a Returning Refugee
Pulitzer Center grantee Don Duncan discusses his experience reporting from Afghanistan and the social, cultural and political shifts he observed on the ground.
AS AIRPORTS GO Dubai International is one of the more luxurious, an oasis of high design, chic lounges and upscale retail. But that's Terminal 1. Terminal 2 feels like a dark secret, barely signposted and difficult to locate. It has garish counters, stained walls and no air conditioning, so real-world smells, banished from the duty-free paradise of Terminal 1, come back full force.
Scenes of daily life in Kabul and Mazar-E-Sharif
Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos.
A visit there today makes it clear that there are two Afghanistans. There's the Afghanistan at war, to the south, particularly in the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. But there's an Afghanistan at peace, with varying levels of stability from jittery, paranoid Kabul to the carefree Mazar-i-Sharif in the north - Afghanistan's fourth largest city - where I spent most of my time during a reporting trip in May.
About one in ten Afghans is disabled, a legacy of decades of war and poor health care.
A disabled Afghan refugee returns to Afghanistan to advocate for greater services for the country's disabled population. Produced by Elsa Butler of the New York Times.
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Don Duncan is a New York-based freelance journalist. His print, video and radio work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington...
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Jessica Wanke is a multimedia reporter, with experience in print, radio and online. She has worked for The Arizona Republic, National Public Radio and BBC News.
Jessica gained journalism...
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Peter van Agtmael is a photographer who has been documenting the consequences of America’s wars at home and abroad since the beginning of 2006. His pictures have appeared in Newsweek, ...