Afghanistan multimedia project

Safdar Ahmed talks about Alwy's work. Coffee Art.

Safdar Ahmed talks about Alwy's art ... coffee art. Alwy celebrated his work in an exhibition last year via FB

Wikimedia commons images

abc radio interview David Thomas about Google mapping. The mapping of archaeological sites ...

Yalda Hakim Dateline

Sbs online Aussie soldiers told not to buy Afghan loot

360 docs audio podcast. This one about returned soldiers

Phillip Adams, Afghanistan's ancient treasures. About protecting sites and museums.

"The Forbidden Reel: A Journey Through the Cinemas of Kabul"

The Forbidden Reel. Story about Kabul's cinemas. Unfortunately, this is a Kickstarter video, Interesting story.

Saur Revolution

Wikipedia images

Great image of Massoudi.

Great pic of Massoudi

Great b/w pic of Massoudi

Paula Abood speaks about storytelling and culture. Paula is a Community Cultural Development worker and is contact for the Afghan women's Dobaiti poetry group and Safdar Ahmed. Paula has also written an essay for Khadim Ali's exhibition at UTS (2011??)

Curating discussing an artwork example.

Safdar Ahmed talks about Alwy's work; how Alwy attends his own exhibition via a dialogue on FB. Safdar talks about his own life as an artist, speaks about drawing his grandmother, the context of the refugee, how art can help to transcend and enrich lives. Mentions Afghan hazara men, Alwys Fadel, an Afghan woman's image of her son, 'food art', resisting single narratives; the importance of carpets in Afghan culture and the significance of an Afghan in detention's work which is a carpet of iconic Australian images.

Afghan women's Dobaiti poetry; Rukhshana Sarwar's published literature on Dobaiti poetry which is passed down from generation to generation, reflects what is happening in Afghanistan at the time, written by mothers and grandmothers seated around tables, poetry for the common people.

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Both tabla and rubab, London performance.