The winter of 2000 was cold in the Wakhan Corridor, one of the remotest regions in northern Afghanistan, as the Taliban were closing in on what remained of a flimsy resistance. Fawzia Koofi, 25 at the time, was traveling with a team of medical surveyors. She had left behind her dying husband and her 16-month-old […]
Author: Mujib Mashal
Mujib Mashal is a journalist and writer from Kabul, Afghanistan. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera English, and Himal Magazine among others