All Posts Tagged With: "afghanistan"
When a Woman Runs for President — in Afghanistan
I’ve just finished watching FrontRunner, the new documentary from New View Films about Massouda Jalal, the only female candidate in Afghanistan’s 2004 elections. It’s hard, of course, to think about a woman running for president without immediately making comparisons to the current presidential race in the U.S. - it’s like a cartoon that needs a […]
9Apr2008 | Andrea Useem | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Purpose-Driven Journalist
What was your favorite New Year’s Eve? Here’s an unexpected one from Pamela Constable, a long-time foreign correspondent with the Washington Post. On Dec. 31, 1999, Constable found herself camped out in a freezing airport in Kandahar, Afghanistan, reporting on a hijacked Indian jetliner, after breaking off her winter holiday in Connecticut. When the hijacked […]
31Dec2007 | Andrea Useem | 0 comments | Continued
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