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Shakespeare in Kabul: After years of a Taliban war on the arts, Afghan theater draws a tentative audience by admin in Culture visit site

"These beautiful buildings may be destroyed by rain or sun, but I have built a palace of poetry which will never be damaged." Ferdowsi, "Shahnameh" The towering mud and straw flanks of Herat's old citadel in western Afghanistan have seen the rise and fall of a thousand years' worth of Central Asian empires. They have protected noble kings, been damaged by bloodthirsty armies and served as a refuge for weary travelers on the Silk Road. But even a building as old as this ...