Field Notes: Researching During Ramadan
24 Aug 2010
How does Ramadan – the Islamic month of fasting during which time the devout avoid eating and drinking between dawn and dusk, impact on your …
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The Money of History
22 Aug 2010
Stepped out of a series of ad-hoc interviews with hawala agents, to find this gent punting this 1910 hundred rouble banknote to the currency dealers …
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In/Appropriate Reading
22 Aug 2010
A twenty year old Sony calculator wrapped by a carpenter made casing, and still in use by its one owner – a Mazar e Sharif …
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In Flight Entertainment
22 Aug 2010
How much honesty do you expect from an in-flight magazine?
Bored passengers on Afghan airline Safi, are entertained by an inflight magazine jam-packed with Afghan alternative …
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ISAF/American critical stencil art (left) depicting the in the Tainani neighbourhood of, Kabul. Stencils are widely used for advertising services here, first examples I’ve …
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Petrol Station Colours
20 Aug 2010
The research crew takes to motorcycles the only way to beat the Kabul traffic – otherwise slowed by the concrete barriers, roadblocks, poor state of …
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