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
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Published February 8, 2012
When Pulitzer Center grantee Anna Badkhen returned to Afghanistan at the end of 2011, she found a changed place. The villages she spent weeks in, she could no longer visit; roads she traveled on, she could no longer take. She spoke with Dick Gordon of American Public Radio's The Story about the effects the Taliban and NATO troop presence had on the small northern Afghanistan villages.
You can read more about the interview and listen at The Story.
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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.
In her last slideshow from Afghanistan, Anna Badkhen reflects on her experience across the country. Her conclusion: Afghans don't close themselves off to outsiders; we simply must listen closely.
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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...
