Monday, January 20, 2014

Afghanistan Quote of the Day: 20 January 2014

"(Kabul) is a man’s town with a woman’s passion for brooding, ruthless, restless, jealous suspicion; where contagious intrigue poisons social intercourse, and malicious gossip flies from the old bazaar to the Kabul Court and finds its way to every foreign residence and back again then to the old bazaar; where espionage and counterespionage haunt each individual, and the unsuspecting new arrival soon learns to suspect even his closest colleague of deceit and wild duplicity.”


Ernest F. Fox, “Travels in Afghanistan: 1937-1938,” 1943





Top: Villager, Katakheyl, Kabul province, summer 2005
Middle: Shoppers, Kabul, January 2014
Bottom: Chatting, Kabul, spring 2005

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