During the year that is supposed to determine Afghanistan’s future, Anna Badkhen gives readers a longer look at a deeply fissured nation that has endured war almost incessantly for millennia.
Afghanistan: From the Ground Up
Published September 16, 2011
Anna Badkhen, a journalist, has spent the past year and half traveling in northern Afghanistan. She felt that she could only understand the country if she slowed down and lived at an Afghan pace. She spent time doing the everyday things - laundry, preparing food, doing dishes- to give her an inside glimpse into the people.
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A new e-book published by Foreign Policy in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center details reporter Anna Badkhen's experience in Afghanistan during the war, embedded with the Afghan people.
Pulitzer Center grantee Anna Badkhen speaks with American Public Media about how families in Afghan villages have coped with violence and the Taliban.
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Anna Badkhen writes about people in extremis. She is a journalist and the author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories and Waiting for the Taliban...
