Education offers exciting future for ambitious Afghan girls

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by Paul Smith • January 5 2011 • Check out the British Council blogtweet this

Girls at school in Afghanistan. Photo by Corporal Vilius Džiavečka, Lithuania. Flickr, Creative Commons.
“Turn over your question papers and begin. You have 90 minutes.”
It’s exam day, and I’m having that pit of the ... Read more

Afghanistan: a nation in transition

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by Paul Smith • December 8 2010 • Check out the British Council blogtweet this

The Hindu Kush. Photograph: mobyhill, Creative Commons / Flickr
6.30 am and I’m scribbling this – trying to – on a tiny 12-seater plane out of Kabul, which has just refuelled at Kandahar NATO military airbase.
Next hop is the massive UK Camp Bastion, then finally Lashkar ... Read more

A jeweller’s creative residency in Afghanistan

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by Melanie Eddy • December 8 2010 • Check out the British Council blogtweet this

Finished Lapis Lazuli gemstones being cut. Photo: Melanie Eddy
I tried not to have too many preconceptions before coming to Afghanistan, but this was difficult considering the news tends to focus on the poverty there, the instability of the country, or how many British soldiers have ... Read more

Teaching military English in Kabul

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by Paul Smith • November 5 2010 • Check out the British Council blogtweet this


Photo: Tom Swift46 / Flickr, Creative Commons
I can’t recall much from my induction day into the British Council in September 1983, apart from being issued with my official British Council briefcase (marker penned 13/1983/Smith) by a man in a brown overall and having sherry with the ... Read more

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