Through Wars Series

The Soviet War, the Mujahadeen War, the Taliban War, the Northern Alliance War, and then the 2001 U.S. invasion, over a quarter century of conflicts have left Afghanistan a legacy of disaster: devastated economy, drug trafficking, the plight of returned refugees, and lingering insecurity due to insurgence of warlords and Taliban remnants. The mainstream media are soaked with imagery of combats, flame, destruction, women in burqas shadowed by the Taliban, old bearded men with turbans...
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The Soviet War, the Mujahadeen War, the Taliban War, the Northern Alliance War, and then the 2001 U.S. invasion, over a quarter century of conflicts have left Afghanistan a legacy of disaster: devastated economy, drug trafficking, the plight of returned refugees, and lingering insecurity due to insurgence of warlords and Taliban remnants. The mainstream media are soaked with imagery of combats, flame, destruction, women in burqas shadowed by the Taliban, old bearded men with turbans resembling Osama Bin Laden, as if terror and tragedy defines Afghanistan and its people.

Through Wars intends to put a human face on Afghanistan: an intimate, modern, demystified, everyday face that forces us to see through wars - the wars Afghans have been through - past the beard and scars, turbans and veils, and make connections with the hope and humanity within.
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