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Photo Gallery: Najibullah Musafer

Photo Gallery: Najibullah Musafer

When I joined Aïna Photo, I was its oldest member (at 40), and I probably still am. I was the only person to successfully film a documentary on the Taliban…
March 15, 2007

Photo Gallery: Fardin Waezi

I learned photography in my father’s studio in Kabul. Under Taliban rule I was arrested five times for “photograph related crimes” and for cutting my beard. I taught the first…
March 15, 2007

‘Have you ever used a pistol?’

In an excerpt from her July 2, 2006 article in The Sunday Times, Christina Lamb writes about her experience of being caught in a fierce Taliban ambush while traveling with…
March 15, 2007

Aïna Photo Gallery

Introduction by Travis Beard, chief editor of Aïna Photo To see Afghanistan through the eyes of Afghan people is Aïna Photo’s greatest ambition. Aïna Photo is the first Afghan photojournalism…
March 15, 2007

A Dangerous Yet Still Necessary Assignment

I feel sad that Afghanistan is back in the news. ... Afghanistan was never going to become Sweden, but had the world really been committed to rebuilding it after 2001,…
March 15, 2007

Goodbye to All That—A Memoir

‘My introduction to daily journalism began with a murder. My introduction to Niemanry also began with a murder.’
December 15, 2006

Courage as a Story Needing to Be Told

‘Unlike love, which may be an emotion only, courage must manifest itself in action.’
June 15, 2006

Challenging a Democratic Government’s Secrecy

‘Of particular concern to journalists is the lack of support some owners of Canadian news organizations have given as they've tried to contest these policies.’
June 15, 2006

Death Threats Are Sent to Try to Stop Reporting

‘If I kept writing, I thought, the threats would eventually stop because they weren't working.’
June 15, 2006

Investigative Journalism Doesn’t Win Many Friends

‘… just about everything has been tried to discourage these kinds of investigations by those who are unhappy with what we find.’
June 15, 2006