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Today’s Office: Layered Security

Mazar e Sharif: today's office
The great thing about layered airport security is that you get to meet the same people over and over and over. Today I get to …



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30 Aug 2010

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Summary Justice

30 Aug 2010

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An apparent thief caught and about to be repeatedly, violently hit by one of the officers. The need in any society for people to see …
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Cold Calling: Afghan Romance 101

29 Aug 2010

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Our local guides here schooled us on Afghan romance 101 – how boys/men and girls/women find ways to bridge the significant gulf between the sexes …
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Female Candidates

29 Aug 2010

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Billboard for one of the ~406 female candidates in the upcoming Afghan election: 68, or roughly ~20% of the seats are reserved for women: posters …
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Separators

29 Aug 2010

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Cheese separated by leaves.
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Reflections

28 Aug 2010

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Street Dynamics

28 Aug 2010



One method we’ve experimented with here in Afghanistan is a varient of the ad-hoc, group street interview – an example above showing Panthea (interviewer) and …
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Poppy Stencil

28 Aug 2010

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Burqa Blues

25 Aug 2010

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In Flight Entertainment

22 Aug 2010

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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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