Essays Half Way Home By Fariba Nawa After four months here, I feel a sense of peace. This experience for me is not just a patriotic gesture; it is a spiritual journey... Pink Shirt From Thailand By Mahbub Shansab The first communist coup d'etat, sudden and without warning, happened in April 1978 with the residents of Kabul still in their beds... Travelogue My First Time: Overland to & Through Afghanistan By Tom Cole By the time we arose the next morning and finally hit the road, after some repairson the bus which was transporting us and that driven by an Afghan, it was afternoon, and we could not expect to reach the frontier borderpost before dark... Fiction A Bad Kid By Rah'nawar Zariab Translated from Dari by Hamed Alipoor Now that I reflect, I know that I have always been a bad kid for my mom. Now, neither my mom is here nor my past; both have gotten woven in the long rope of life and will definitely not come back...	Editors Corner Publisher's Notes Theme Staff & Contributors Articles The Man Behind the Epic: Mir Ghulam Muhammad Ghobar By Mir Hekmatullah Sadat In contemporary Afghanistan, many historians flourished but none measuring to Ghobar's stature... Afghans United Through Soccer By Khaleda Atta Photos by Yamah Ghiassi The fourth annual VA Afghan Soccer Tournament gathered thousands of fans for a fun-filled and exhilarating event... A Healthy Approach to the Parent-Adolescent Relationship: The East and West Cultural Perspective By Dr. Amin Azimi The Afghan youth growing up in America are enjoying the benefits of being bi-culture, flexible and open-minded... Music Dialogue with Said Omar By Farhad Azad Said Omar has surged into the Afghan music scene in the West and has added new quality as well as his own influence. And he extended to us the privilege of a candid dialogue...	Cover by Hameed Naweed Visual Arts ASA Art Show Photos by Yamah Ghiassi Examination of a Mythical Afghan Rug By Charles Lewis, Ph.D There are repeated images along the length of the rug forming an unusual design. At the center, we see a mounted horseman in a colorful costume looking at the scene of a bull which has been freshly killed by a large feline carnivore... Poetry The Sewing Room By Zahera Saed Drifting Moments By Dr. Amin Azimi

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