Kate B. Harding

  The following clip from Kabul Transit appears in the Asia Society’s comprehensive website on Afghanistan, Homeland Afghanistan.  Directed by David B. Edwards, Gregory Whitmore, and Maliha Zulfacar. Performed by Malang Kohistani. Oley, PA: Bullfrong Films, 2006. DVD.   Lyrics: Our country has pleasant weather, beautiful land and fields Birthplace of brave men, heroes of [...]

  “When I was in college, my friends and I, we used to go to Afghanistan and live like kings!” This was Hafeez, my Pashtun taxi driver, recalling his youth as he drove me back to Brooklyn. Hafeez grew up in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. The NWFP – recently rebranded “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa” – [...]