Monday, September 11, 2006

In Search of My Father's Afghanistan -- By Saira Shah

"Oh foreigners -- do not attack Kabul. Attacking Kabul is my job!" All this time I was living in Britain, where the newspapers were telling me of a country under continual attack, devastated by years of war beginning with the Soviet occupation in 1979 and then by the Taliban's oppressive regime. But it was literature and legend that prompted me to begin traveling to Afghanistan 20 years ago -- first as a freelance journalist, then as a documentary filmmaker.

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