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.
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