Afsana Seesana is a very famous Afghan folk nursery rhyme. (In the Dari language, the word “afsana” means story). A rhyme associates words with similar sounds using a rhyming couplet or short verse and is often short and easy to remember. When pe...
Run Away Like A Gingerbread Man tells the story of five-year-old Rustam, who lives with his mother in war-torn Afghanistan. When conditions at home become dangerous, they are forced to flee, and Rustam's mother comforts him with her version of the...
“You are a man now, take care of your mother,” Zia’s father whispered to Zia just as he is arrested—never to return home. Soon after that, in 1989, the Russians pull out of Afghanistan, and the country falls into civil war. Af...