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Herat, Afghanistan 1974

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Qur'an Manuscript Folio (Recto); Left Folio of Double-Page Illuminated Frontispiece, 1500s. Afghanistan, Herat, Safavid period (1501–1722). Ink, gold, and colors on paper.

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Herat, Afghanistan

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The roof of Herat's Jihad Museum, which commemorates the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan.

Taken on November 29, 2011

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Citadel of Herat, Afghanistan

Afghan vintage postcard, mailed in 1972 to the Netherlands

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Afghans hold a secret wedding in Herat in March of 2001, when the Taliban's version of Islamic law made it illegal for men and women to dance together. 

LYNSEY ADDARIO

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Sayed Kazim Rafiqi, 42, a Herat city resident, said he had never seen such devastation before with the majority of houses damaged and “people terrified.” Rafiqi and others headed to the hospital to donate much-needed blood. “We have to help in any way possible,” he said. The earthquakes on Oct. 7 flattened whole villages in Herat, in one of the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history. More than 90% of the people killed a week ago were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday. Taliban officials said the earlier quakes killed more than 2,000 people across the province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where the majority of casualties and damage occurred. The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a second 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. Schools, health clinics and other village facilities also collapsed. Besides rubble and funerals after that devastation, there was little left of the villages in the region’s dusty hills. Survivors are struggling to come to terms with the loss of multiple family members and in many places, living residents are outnumbered by volunteers who came to search the debris and dig mass graves.

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Noora Studies, Herat, Afghanistan, 2013

Photo: Alissa Everett

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An Afghan labourer poses at an aluminium workshop in Herat on May 27, 2014. 

Source: Aref Karimi

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Nomadic Kuchi women and girls near a Mosque on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan 1973

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Swami Ramanand used to follow a practice of mental worship, by imagining an idol of Vishnu Ji. The first time in his entire life span, he forgot to put on the kanthi mala (necklace that has one leaf of tulsi) on the idol of Thakur Ji. At that time, Lord Kabir was playing a leela in the form of a 5 years old child and told him to open the knot of the kanthi mala and then tie it around the neck of Lord Vishnu. This way, your practice will be successful. Swami Ramanand was doing this mental worship behind the curtain. As soon as he heard these words of Lord Kabir, he hugged Him in front of everybody. Mann ki pooja tum lakhi, mukut maal parvesh.Garibdas gati kaun lakhe, kaun varan kya bhesh.

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The staggering rise in malnutrition rates is evidence of the impact that hunger is already having on children under the age of five in Afghanistan. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen the rate of admissions at their facilities treating malnutrition across the country increase by as much as 47% this year over the last. MSF's feeding centre in Herat is the only well-equipped malnutrition facility catering not just to Herat, but also to the neighbouring provinces of Ghor and Badghis, where malnutrition rates have gone up by 55% over the last year. Since last year, they've increased the number of beds they have to cope with the number of sick children they're having to admit. But even so, the facility is almost always more than full. Increasingly the children arriving have to be treated for more than one disease.

Yogita Limaye, ‘Afghanistan: 'I drug my hungry children to help them sleep'’, BBC

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Inhabitants push an old sixties Chevrolet, a symbol of better times, through a street in Herat, Afghanistan. 21 November, 2001

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A tailor at the old bazaar of #Herat, #Afghanistan Photo by Arezou Ava @arezou.ava. #everydayafghanistan #tailor #bazaar #everydayeverywhere #photographer #business #cloth #everydayherat #documentaryphotography #documnetary #reportagespotlight #afghan #old #afghanwomen #everydayasia (at Herat, Afghanistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfl8MhbtO0c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=