Anna Badkhen is the author, most recently, of Afghanistan by Donkey. She is at work on a book about Afghanistan and timelessness. Reporting this story was made possible by a grant by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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What Afghan Women Want
In Afghanistan's harsh rural regions, the West's legacy is merely more scars.
Anna Badkhen
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