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Reason
February 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Aesthetic Karma Should the Buddhas destroyed last spring by the Taliban be rebuilt?   |
Salon.com
March 22, 2001
Carina Chocano |
Save the children, or the Buddhas get it Afghanistan's roving ambassador tries to explain why the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were considered the greatest remaining examples of third and fifth century Greco-Indian art in the world. |
Salon.com
November 16, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Beneath the Veil" redux Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War"... |
Salon.com
December 17, 2001
Tamim Ansary |
Leaping to conclusions Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future... |
Salon.com
October 19, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected... |
Reason
November 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Great Stone Face Just as the Taliban were detonating Afghanistan's ancient Buddhas, spreading worldwide dismay, plans were hatched to carve a 250-foot face of Alexander the Great on a granite outcropping in Greece, spreading considerable alarm. |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011
Vernon Silver |
Egypt Is Looted, and Curators Balk Thefts of artifacts from Cairo's Egyptian Museum revive the debate over the repatriation of ancient art. |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
Outside
December 2003
Patrick Symmes |
The Kabul Express In the sixties and seventies it was the hippie trail that brought foreigners to Afghanistan. Two decades of war and terror later, Kabul is a nonstop rave of C-130s, NGOs, soldiers, and spooky nation-builders. The freaks are back on Chicken Street -- where everything old is new again. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Manjeet Kripalani |
Operation: Stability in Afghanistan The country is making steady progress, but it's facing huge challenges in getting ready for free elections next June. |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity? American policy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, or so it appears. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested in May 2003 that the war on terror in Afghanistan was in "cleanup" or "mop up" phase. |
Salon.com
September 19, 2001
Laura Miller |
The "enemy" we barely know A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.... |
Reason
April 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Shear Anxiety Haircut cops in Kabul rounded up a few dozen of the city's barbers in January, charging them with turning men into Leonardo DiCaprio wannabes. That's a serious matter in Afghanistan, because its extremist religious rulers, the Taliban, regard most foreign haircuts as "anti-Islamic"... |
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Petra: An Eroding Ancient City Petra is an ancient city in Jordan, where carved stone facades cover red sandstone walls. Tourism has taken its toll... Preserving an Afghan landmark... Conservation changes... |
Salon.com
December 11, 2001
Janelle Brown |
The women behind the women of Afghanistan Hena Efat was smuggled into the Afghan Women's Summit; her plan is to go home and fight some more... |
TIME Asia
May 16, 2011
Hannah Beech |
Party Piece After a long, $380 million refurbishment, China's National Museum fully reopened in April. It is now the biggest in the world, with 1.05 million cultural relics spread over 192,000 sq m of floor space |
AskMen.com
January 16, 2003
Peter Fueller |
Top 10: Museums Of The World There are thousands of museums around the world, many of which are worth visiting. However, you probably don't want to spend your entire vacation looking through endless collections of paintings and sculptures, created by artists you've never even heard of. You want the famous stuff, right? |
