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Project
Afghanistan: On Its Own
Foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan. As the decade-long effort to secure the country draws to a...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: On Love and Suicide
Pulitzer Center grantees Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy introduced us to the landay — a centuries...
June 24, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Beneath the Burqa
Executive Director Jon Sawyer introduces a standout project on Afghan landay poetry by grantees...
June 3, 2013
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-23-13/img_1013.jpg.webp?h=b4be4d07&itok=23BX1GDg "Schoolboys in Kabul coming from class. Despite ongoing Taliban violence and endemic graft in many sectors, Kabul has seen progress in education, construction, and business during the international presence." Image by Jeffrey E. Stern. Afghanistan, 2013.")
![Media file: AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026.JPG](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026_0.JPG.webp?h=56d0ca2e&itok=UutLqFjY "Zarmina Shehadi's mother Simin Gula and father Khel Mohammad. They denied that Zarmina wrote poetry or that her death was suicide. “It was an accident. She was trying to get warm after a bath, but the firewood was wet, so she poured petrol on it and caught herself on fire.” And no, her daughter absolutely did not like writing or reading or poetry, her mother argued. “She was a good girl, an uneducated girl. She was a good tailor. Our girls don’t want to go to school." Image by Seamus Murphy. Afghanistan, 2012.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-01-15/landay.jpg.webp?h=4a9a4139&itok=hk4BMTiP "A still shot from PBS Newshour's "Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afgan Life" in which Seamus Murphy narrates a slideshow of some of his favorite images.")
