Afghanistan
I was born in Kabul in 1985 and grew up during three wars. This is where I put my writing on Afghanistan, and versions of it that explain the argument in pictures, in English, Dari and Pashto.
Not Never, In Sequence
A series on why Afghanistan keeps rejecting democracy, and how it could grow one
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Why Afghanistan Rejects Democracy, Part 1
Why Afghanistan ended up with two presidents on one afternoon, told by 240 dots trying to work out who they can trust.
Essays
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Why some countries can't be built
The ghost soldiers I tried to fix in Kabul in 2007, cousin marriage in my own family, and why trust between strangers can't be widened faster than a society can carry. On Afghanistan, the Taliban, and what the West could still do.
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I came to America as an interpreter. He came as a trained killer. We got the same resettlement plan.
On the failure of the Afghan resettlement process, written after the shooting of two National Guard members.