Life in a City
Being careful in Kabul
A Day in an Afghan School
By Fariba Nawa September 2004 Scholastic Elham stands tall, all three feet of him, to read a lesson from his book in front of his fourth-grade class. His gleaming blue eyes pass quickly over the [...]
Life in a Village
By Fariba Nawa September 2004 Scholastic In the northeast of Afghanistan is a village called Yaftal, built along the edge of a mountain thousands of feet high. In the summer, it is windy and sunny. [...]
One Brick at a Time
The reconstruction of Fayzabad
Women in Afghanistan
More freedom doesn't mean more equality
Iraq’s boy band dreams big
By Fariba Nawa September 2003 Scholastic Baghdad -- Five boys with a keyboard and a Volkswagen Passat. That's all it took to form Unknown to No One, Iraq's one and only boy band. Wide-eyed and [...]
