Editorial
Afghans have constituted one of the world’s largest and most protracted displaced populations, with many unable to imagine “home.”
Issue 45, Afghans on Exile
Preface by Guest Editor: Mapping our Tellable Histories
Each work in this issue reflects jagged edges and partial embodiment, glimpses and shifting insights, dispatches from a territory of borderless living.
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Family Album
The 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan delivered a blow to the nascent Afghan film industry. But a resilient and determined group of exiled filmmakers are finding their voices once again.
Cartography of My Ugliness
The cartography of my ugliness was a cynical drawing, a depiction I worked on day and night during the era of my pubescent body. I surveyed myself and added lines to the drawing that had not been there a day earlier. I looked in the mirror and erased and drew over the previous lines, which
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“Stealing Fire”: Afghan Women Writers on Exile
This collective piece was produced as part of Paranda, a writer development programme and global network of women writers in Afghanistan and the diaspora, facilitated by Untold Narratives and supported by KFW Stiftung.
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Delhi Kitchen, Kabul Heart
Even in exile, Afghan women resist invisibility through tea, through language, through songs, and through everyday work.
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Me and Music
For Afghan exiles, the music they grew up with remains the magic tie that binds them to Afghanistan.
Pinocchio in Neverland
Living in exile can feel like an unreal existence, where simple things – like writing – can seem out of reach.
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Afghanistan is Not a Backdrop
Afghanistan doesn’t need visitors looking for a spectacle or to be portrayed through filtered reels. It needs not to be forgotten.
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At Home on the Internet
Being far from home has taught Afghans that they can keep their stories and culture alive on social media, creating a new space for connection and sharing.
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Sonic Tapestries: Music, Memory, and the Making of Home in Exile
Intergenerational listening is developed as a practice of rerouting in exile. It’s how families and communities build a sense of continuity when geography has been broken.
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