No Afghan woman would ever consent to have her photograph made without the veil. Frederick Simpich and “Haji Mirza Hussein”, “Every-day Life in Afghanistan,” The National Geographic Magazine (January, 1921) Afghanistan may be the only country in the world where during the last century kings and politicians have been made and undone by struggles relating […]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Haiti: Sovereignty
Demolition of the National Palace, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Le Nouvelliste (April 8th, 2010)
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Haiti: Grand Rue, Port-au-Prince
Peter Dean Rickards, “Return to the Trembling Heart: Grand Rue, Port-au-Prince,” First (April 14th, 2010)
Haiti: Rebuilding
Haiti can’t be reconstructed by well-meaning outsiders. Robert B. Zoellick, “How to Rebuild Haiti,” Worldbank.org (February 1, 2010) The process is characterized by a near-total exclusion of Haitian social actors and a weak and non-coordinated participation by representatives of the Haitian state. Mouvements sociaux haïtiens quoted in Beverly Bell and Tory Field, “The Business of Disaster: […]
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Afghanistan: Opium
When we marched from Kandahar to Kelat, there were no supplies at all of opium. Col. W.W. Biscoe, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Opium (1894) It is in the western and eastern parts of this mountainous band on either side of India that are to be found the world’s two most […]
Haiti: Sound
Andrée Lescot in Chansons Créoles/Tropical Lament (Directed by Roger Blais, National Film Board of Canada, 1951)
Haiti: Sound
Chansons Créoles, chansons folkloriques d’Haiti performed by Andrée Lescot and arranged and accompanied by Roger Bourdin and his ensemble (1958). Side A: Chansons Créoles. Side B: Chansons folkloriques d’Haïti.
Afghanistan: Sound
Afghani Songs, Mirza Nazar Khan (1928?) Side A: Baz karé man va mashough beh peygham oftad Side B: Poshideh baz jameyeh guldar yar-e man