When National Geographic Magazine commissioned me during the early 2000s to do a story that would ‘reveal’ Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S.-led NATO occupation, I was somewhat panicked. As with other foreign correspondents who had been covering Afghanistan since the December 1979 Soviet invasion, I had reported the war by trekking across mountains … Continue reading Whitney Azoy’s Afghanistan: A Partial Comprehension – tales and photos from the pre-war