Taran Khan is a former writer-in-residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher, Switzerland, where she wrote and revised much of this book. (See her Global Geneva article: Living in a treehouse on her Fellowship experience). Years ago, while on an 18-month reporting trip across Africa by Land Rover, I encountered a wizened Belgian ex-colonial, … Continue reading Walking the streets of Kabul: memories and discoveries of a shadowland