I spent my evening at a watering hole in Kabul known as “L’Atmo,” best pronounced with an elongated English oooooh, short for “l’atmosphère,” but by no stretch of the imagination, lacking in the latter; that is, if you think that atmosphere requires an entire tribe of posers to prove its existence. It’s an overpriced, pseudo-French […]

The national Afghan football team practices at the infamous stadium where Taliban performed executions in Kabul. © Anne Holmes
I arrived in Kabul two days ago. My first impressions are nothing like what I expected. The city is calm, the people are extremely friendly, and it’s easy to forget that at any moment anything could happen. […]

These are the words of Col. Victor Petrenko, chief of staff to the top U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan, as quoted in Editor and Publisher:
“”When untrained people take photographs or video, there is a very real risk that the images or videography will capture visual details that are not as they originally were,” he […]

For an excellent source of independent, on-site, up to the minute journalism in Lebanon, please visit my friend Christopher Allbritton’s site

© Anne Holmes
I’ve had more than enough time to share my future travel plans with friends and family. I’ve been waiting almost exactly a month for the Iranian embassy in Paris to decide whether or not they would let me visit their country. In the meantime, their government back home has been making rather interesting […]