Seeing Afghanistan with New Eyes: Love Marriage in Kabul

Buildings in tatters, barren desert, battered bodies and a brutal military are the images that often come to mind when Afghanistan is brought up in conversation. But Amin Palangi's Love Marriage in Kabul, which chronicles a conventional love story alongside a story of coming together between East and West, urges us to challenge our preconceptions about the war-torn country, writes Emily Laidlaw.

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