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Afghan Diary
Written by: Michael Hayes
# Photo by: Michael Hayes UNAMA Photographic Peace Ambassador Tim Page hones his weapons skills at a firing range outside of Kabul. THE United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) ...
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:00:30 +0700
Word count: 1165
Written by: Michael Hayes
# “The city is a jewel encircled by an emerald with flowers and blossoms whose odors perfume the air with a fragrance elsewhere unknown,” wrote the American adventurer Josiah Harlan about Kabul in ...
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:00:50 +0700
Word count: 1117
Written by: Michael Hayes
# THE constant and extremely serious dilemma NATO forces face in convincing Afghans that they are here as helpers, rather than an “occupying foreign force”, as they are described by the Taliban, be...
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:01:20 +0700
Word count: 735
Written by: Michael Hayes
# IT was late Tuesday, and I was walking over to the Aussie cafe called Poppy’s to try to use the Dutch wi-fi system to which I’d bought US$37 worth of access.There was a communications blackout on...
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:40 +0700
Word count: 1053
Written by: Michael Hayes
# THE news of Hamid Karzai’s official re-election as president of Afghanistan hit the remote NATO base at Tirin Kowt in Uruzgan province like a pin falling on a bowl of Marshmallow Fluff.It was practic...
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:50 +0700
Word count: 986
Written by: Michael Hayes
# A burqa-clad woman crosses a street with her child as a policeman stands guard on a street in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday. AFP IT took a while, but my first embed with NATO forces finally g...
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:30 +0700
Word count: 830
Written by: Michael Hayes
# Police load a dead body into a UN ambulence after an attack Wednesday on the Bekhtar Guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan. AFP THE lodge where I stay in Kabul was badly damaged October 8 when a suic...
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:01:00 +0700
Word count: 981
Written by: Michael Hayes
# THE explosion was the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. It blew out two large windows in the entrance to my bedroom, sending shattered glass all over the carpet, and left me momentarily in a ...
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:00:40 +0700
Word count: 653
Written by: Michael Hayes
# FOR years I used to joke that Phnom Penh was a hardship post for diplomats, UN and NGO officials - enabling them to get an added hardship allowance on top of their salaries - because the city only had ...
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:02:10 +0700
Word count: 517
Written by: Michael Hayes
# IN spite of the likely international perception that Kabul is a city under siege, many aspects of life for the three million residents here go on as normal.There were huge weddings before the start of ...
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:02:10 +0700
Word count: 636
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