Afghan Couples: A study of shifting gender and identity Nawa’s senior college thesis has become an e-book by popular demand. In her fourth and final year at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., Nawa had to [...]

Contractors in Afghanistan are making big money for bad work A highway that begins crumbling before it is finished. A school with a collapsed roof. A clinic with faulty plumbing. A farmers’ cooperative that [...]

Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan “It took me seven years to research and write Opium Nation – it’s both reportage and memoir – and the most enduring [...]