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'Voices From Afghanistan' Exhibit Opens At The Library Of Congress

A letter sent to Radio Azadi from a listener in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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February 23, 2010

On display now in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson building in Washington, D.C. is a multimedia exhibit displaying some of the thousands of hand-painted scrolls and letters received by Afghanistan's most popular radio station, RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. The exhibit - "Voices From Afghanistan" - offers a window into the daily lives of ordinary Afghans from various ethnic communities across all parts of the country.

[Click here to go to the exhibit home page; click on the image below  to see an interactive preview of the exhibit]                                               

                         

And check out this amazing video of two Afghan boys who sent a 130-foot long letter to Radio Azadi from their small village outside of Kabul:



"Voices from Afghanistan" is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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by: Karim.pashtoon from: Zhob
February 24, 2010 14:46
I appreciat the latter of this Afghan guy which he sent to Radio Azadi, i think if our youth will be try to send such latters to all world medias & they select for world compitaton as such as latter selected for discution of congress and now those will be kept in the congress library, after that this truth will open to the world people, such is Afghans/Pashtoons Nation not love with rifles but they have love with writting, learning and studying.
Thank you
Karim Pashtoon
Zhob- Balochistan
by: Nabil from: USA
March 04, 2010 07:46
Karaim brother, I hope the Pashton tribe can stop violence and setting fire on school. We hope they instead start going to school to learn how to live and how to write.
the guys in the film are not Pashtons. unlike south of Afghanistan, people in the north of Afghanistan and central Afghanistan are Mashallah bright and educated.

Nabil
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