![]() ![]() For his journalistic and human rights projects he has won the 2006 Hellman/Hammett Grant from Human Rights Watch, and a 2007 Freedom Award from the Afghanistan Civil Society Forum. Hazar also has served as a radio journalist and editor. Today, then, I am posting a poem-about writing and so much more-by an Afghan poet, Kamran Mir Hazar (1976-), who has garnered internatioal praise for his poetry, his journalism, and his political efforts to promote human rights and civil society in Afghanistan.Ī member of the Hazara people, and poet and journalist in Dari and Hazaragi, Kamran Mir Hazar founded and has edited the websites Kabul Press and Refugee Face, the former of which the governments of Afghanistan and Iran block access to. About Afghan literature, I would imagine our knowledge remains as minimal as ever. The war, or something approximating one, grinds on drones ply the skies over Khost Afghan people, like the coalition soldiers, are still dying and suffering serious psychological and physical injuries the government there teeters on.the brink? I would venture that most Americans know as little about Afghanistan today, save for the names of a few cities- Kabul, Kandahar, Mazari Sharif-and politicians- Hamid Karzai-than we did before the war began. The US has occupied Afghanistan for a decade. ![]()
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