My Dear Kabul: A Year in the Life of an Afghan Women’s Writing Group is one of the most powerful accounts of contemporary Afghanistan because it tells history through the voices of women living through political catastrophe. Created by twenty-one Afghan women brought together by the organisation Untold Narratives, the […]
All the Roads Are Open: An Afghan Journey (1939–40) by Annemarie Schwarzenbach | Book Review
“The beginning of a great journey has become a gentle, untroubled memory, like a dream you need not fear and do not lose.” All the Roads Are Open: An Afghan Journey (1939–40) by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) is an account of a trip that Schwarzenbach undertook with a fellow traveller and journalist […]