Afghanistan Before Taliban: The Photographs of Podlich

_{^{Students at the Higher Teachers College, Kabul}}

_{^{Young afghans gather to share tea, sing, & play music}}

_^Classroom

^{_{Women in Kabul}}

_{^{Afghan schoolgirls returning home, an act that the Taliban would ban some 30 years later}}

_{^{Afghan men gaze out over the village of Istalif}}

^{_{Afghan students learn chemistry in a mud-walled classroom}}

^{_{American International School, Kabul}}

_{^{A merchant fries jalebi, a sweet Afghan dessert, over an open fire}}

^{_{Women in Kabul}}

^{_{The Bamiyan Valley, home to giant Buddha statues that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001}}

1960s Afghanistan presents a stark contrast to the war-torn region we know today. In 1967, Podlich, a professor at Arizona State University, began a two-year stint in Afghanistan with UNESCO to teach in the Higher Teachers College in Kabul, Afghanistan. He documented a liberal and tolerant country. Unfortunately, when the Soviets invaded less than two decades later, it would spell a different fate for Afghanistan.
_{^{via rferl}}

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