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 It is all about war: Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil is primarily a photo journal. The color photos chronicle the history of war in Afghanistan from the exile of the last Durrani King, Zahir Shah, to the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
About the journalists: Lifting the Veil is dedicated to two Reuters colleagues who were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan on November 19, 2001. Credits and pictures of the contributing photojournalists appear on the last pages of the book. Saled Salahuddin is the book’s only Afghan writer/photographer. One of the featured photojournalists, Sebastian Junger, was the American who interviewed Ahmid Mashud, leader of Afghan’s Northern Alliance, shortly before Mashud was assassinated by two Al Qaeda terrorists posing as journalists.
We cannot imagine such loss: Jerry Lampen captures the extremity of Afghan’s loss with the picture and caption about Sada Bibi, a 32-year-old injured Afghan refugee. Sada Bibi, lying on a soiled pallet, stares vacantly into space. It is said, 'Sada lost five daughters, two sons, her husband and two other relatives...in her village of Bohari, just outside the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.'
An uplifting photograph shows a little Afghan girl secretly learning her Arabic alphabet in the Rabia Balhke School. Rabia Balhke is a legendary Afghan poetess who died for love.
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