Not long ago, Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, was working on a story in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. One day, he hiked for 45 minutes up a mountain. On the top of the hill, he found a tiny guard tower, looking over into Pakistan, where a few U.S. Read More
KABUL—In some ways, being an “international” in Kabul is one of the last great colonial adventures, complete with armed guards, drivers and the occasional attack.
But like that word “international”—no one says “expat” anymore—it’s a colonial adventure with a postmodern twist. “Internationals”—the term used by the U.N. and other non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) to describe staff Read More
Abdul Rahman had to live 41 years before he became an international celebrity. He did that overnight when he got into a child-custody fight with his family, who let it out that Mr. Rahman had converted to Christianity—something you do not lightly do in Afghanistan.
Actually, Mr. Rahman is supposed to have abandoned Allah for Read More
“But you don’t look American.” “Where are you really from?” “Where were your parents born?” I’ve heard this overseas, both in Europe and in places like Afghanistan and India, and I’ve heard it here in New York, but only from visitors. My black hair, dark brown eyes and olive skin reflect my Jewish ancestry, but Read More
We have much to discuss! And with Tony Kushner our subject this week, are you surprised?
Let me firstly confirm the magnificent achievement of Homebody/Kabul in Mr. Kushner’s revised version, directed by Frank Galati and currently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. When this fantastic play whose broken heart is set among the ruins of Read More
How wonderful, in my line of work, to be able to usher in the New
Year by celebrating Tony Kushner’s great new play of our anguished times, Homebody/Kabul . I cannot think of a more
important drama in the last decade-since, in fact, the same awesomely
articulate dramatist astonished us with his vast epic of Read More
