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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the grief that I have known. I st...more

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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the grief that I have known. I st...more

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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the grief that I have known. I st...more

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It's the whistling," Laila said to Tariq, "the damn whistling, I hate more than anything" Tariq nodded knowingly. It wasn't so much the whistling itse...more

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That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyo...more

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‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly...more

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Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...

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war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed heroes and villains,...more

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He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favo...more

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Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands...more