"This is our war for peace."

January 14, 2015 2:54 AM

Since 2010, Freelance Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary has been tweeting photos with the hashtags #AfghanistanYouNeverSee and #EveryDayLifeInAghanistan showing sides of the country that rarely make it into Western media.

The photos range from jaw-droppingly beautiful, to quietly delightful, to colourful, to inspirational, to familiar, to very, very cold

Here's a nice round-up of the instagram posts.

posted by smoke (7 comments total)

Oh shite, I totally missed that I hadn't added his name: it's Bilal Sarwary, he's written for the BBC, Al Jazeera, and a million other places.
posted by smoke at 2:57 AM on January 14, 2015

Mod note: Added that, since it might help in possible future searches!
posted by taz (staff) at 5:19 AM on January 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

thanks for this. I know nothing of this country that we've been at war in half my life, except that it's dusty? this is really great.
posted by rebent at 5:32 AM on January 14, 2015

Afghanistan has some very beautiful, if forbidding, landscapes.
posted by Vindaloo at 6:25 AM on January 14, 2015

Thanks for this post. Some really great pictures, and I really like the #EverydayLifeInAfghanistan feed and wouldn't have found it otherwise. I can't stop looking at this portrait, it's stunning.
posted by billiebee at 6:39 AM on January 14, 2015

I'm a little confused by the "college entrance exam" picture (which pictures students sitting in a snowy field taking a test. What college is this? What is attending classes like?

(This one)
posted by RustyBrooks at 10:58 AM on January 14, 2015

Astonishing Pictures What Afghanistan Looked Like Before Its Decades Of War
posted by homunculus at 12:45 PM on January 18, 2015