You might like Left Right Jawad, who like many Afghans uses just the one name, out playing with an old tyre in the Mikrorayan district of Kabul. Simon Norfolk 2011 Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque is known as the Mosque of the King with Two Swords. It was built in the 1920s on the order of King Amanullah’s mother on the site of one of Kabul’s first mosques named in honour of an early Muslim king who died fighting Hindu inva Simon Norfolk 2011 Jaw Aka Faisal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined gardens of Darulaman Palace. Built in the 1920s to house an Afghan parliament, ‘Darul Aman’ translates as ‘abode of peace’. Simon Norfolk 2011 A dumping ground for an abandoned Russian-era bomber that has now been incorporated into the car park of ‘Shamshad TV’, a new media company supported heavily by American money. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Political Staff of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad. Simon Norfolk 2011 Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 High school, Lubumbashi, DR Congo Guy Tillim 2008 Old landline exchange, Post Office, Lubumbashi, DR Congo Guy Tillim 2008 ‘Radio TV Mountain’ in the centre of Kabul seen from where the Kabul River cuts through the mountains creating the Deh Mazang gorge. In the first Anglo-Afghan War it was the site of a crucial skirmish and hasty retreat by badly outnumbered British cavalry Simon Norfolk 2011 One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technological army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things Simon Norfolk 2011 In the shop Browse the shop
