Our Forgotten History
Shabnam NasimiWriter and historian, bringing you lost and erased stories from Afghanistan and beyond. Usually found digging through the past in an old bookshop.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 42 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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I really hate the word resilient.
It was the autumn of 2021. Kabul had fallen weeks earlier. The images were still raw, men clinging to the outside of military aircraft, women burning their diplomas, girls in tears, told they can no longer go to school.
I was standing in a...
How the Pahlavi coin become my parents proposal ring.
There is a ring that has been in my family for as long as anyone can remember. Most probably over sixty years. Set into it is a gold coin, a Pahlavi coin, minted in 1968 in Tehran, in the final years of the last Shah of Iran. It is small an...
How Hitler’s puppy was gifted to the government of Afghanistan in the 1920's
Indian merchants in the bazaar of Kabul 1915-1919. Oskar von Niedermayer
I first heard this story from Sam Dalrymple in an interview, and I remember pausing it because it sounded too neat, too unlikely, almost like someone had written it a...
Afghanistan is not the ‘graveyard of empires’
Greek geographer Strabo’s map of the world, depicting ‘Ariana’, a region spanning much of what is now Afghanistan (c. AD 17).
Afghanistan is not the “graveyard of empires”.
It’s one of those lines with the smoothness of a proverb and the...
The Rubāb maker by the Zoroastrian fire temple.
An English friend of ours who went to Afghanistan in 2010, visited my father’s district and met my great-father. He was possibly between 95-100 years old at the time, but didn’t have a birth certificate.
Afghanistan’s musical instrument ma...
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