The Depth Where Pain Lives
Some are separated from a homeland they were never able to live in. Some are separated from a mother they never learned to call mother.
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Against Silence: Writing in Exile
Exile is a cognitive and political structure, not merely an individual experience.
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Only a Suitcase
On a journey of becoming an utterly marginal person, one ends up arriving nowhere at all.
Ja, vi elsker / Yes, We Love
National belonging is in many ways a fiction. Belonging always happens locally, between specific people in specific places.
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A Child’s Journey: From Kabul’s Dreams to Survival in Pakistan
The future of Afghan refugees in Pakistan is future shaped not by choice, but by necessity.
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“The Songs of Birds Whose Names I Knew”: Listening and Singing in Exile
Music itself is a journey — one that carries uprooted Afghan musicians like Ghawgha through unexpected paths and turns.
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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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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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Me and Music
For Afghan exiles, the music they grew up with remains the magic tie that binds them to Afghanistan.
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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“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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