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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The road connecting Afghanistan to China via their tiny border in the mountainous Wakhan corridor (also one of the most wonderful places in Afghanistan) is now officially open www.tolonews.com/afghanistan-...
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Afghanistan Officially Opens Road Connecting Country with China | TOLOnews
The Wakhan Corridor, which includes part of one of Afghanistan’s national parks, attracts both domestic and international tourists.
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Worth watching, and kuddos to CBS News for pushing on girls' education: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Rj...
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Taliban speaks to CBS News 25 years after 9/11
YouTube video by CBS News
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From our photobook No Woman's Land: polaroids from archive images, of what Afghan women cannot do anymore: go to university, be on TV, go to Band-e-Amir park, be in Parliament (it doesn't exist anyway), be a girl scout, work in most public-facing jobs, etc
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kiana and I are very proud to announce that No Woman's Land, our photobook documenting women's lives under Taliban rule in #Afghanistan , is out with 268 pages of photos along with texts, archive imagery, polaroid and collaborative art, sketches. (1/2) shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-la...
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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Right. I could do with some help. I am thinking ahead about the maps my book will need. I want you to send me pictures of your favourite *Maps In Books*. I am going to start the ball rolling with the map from A Line In The Sand, drawn by Reg Piggott, which turned out nicely:
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/09/2026
‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan
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‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan
Shallah, Fatimah and Maahi are among hundreds of thousands of Afghan women and girls deported from Iran and Pakistan in the past year to a life of severe restrictions
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A few thoughts from Kandahar, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Taliban takeover: melissacornet.substack.com/p/in-kandahar
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In Kandahar
Another Afghan summer, five years after the Taliban takeover
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
On @france24.com to talk about Afghanistan under the Taliban, five years in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQN_... French interview as well (slightly different questions:) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc8H...
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Afghan women are erased from public life • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Illustrated @crisisgroup.org 's latest report on Afghan women-led businesses, a lifeline and one of the last ways to engage the Taliban on women's rights. To read it: www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/asia-pac...
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Working around Restrictions: Afghan Women Build Businesses under the Taliban | International Crisis Group
After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, they severely curtailed women’s rights. The private sector, in particular small-scale entrepreneurship, has emerged as one of the last spaces where...
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
GIRLTALKHQ: New Photobook Documents The Resilience Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan Under The Taliban www.girltalkhq.com/new-photoboo... @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
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New Photobook Documents The Resilience Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan Under The Taliban
Kabul, Afghanistan, April 22, 2024. Shahla, 21, is a radio host. “Even laughter was banned. But we fight back, girls call us to say we give them hope. We had a program where girls would laugh on ai…
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I profiled lawyer Katerya Rashevska in @theguardian.com on Ukraine's fight to rescue the children stolen by Russia, with beautiful portrait by @emileducke.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia
Though once so despairing she thought of giving up the law for art, Kateryna Rashevska is still pushing for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by the invaders
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
THE VII FOUNDATION: No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...? @theviifoundation.bsky.social @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #documentary
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No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet reflect on how they made their award-winning story.
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Our talk for the VII Foundation on our reportage about Afghan women's lives under the Taliban is now on their new Youtube channel. To (re-)watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj3V... @theviifoundation.bsky.social
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Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, with Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet
YouTube video by The VII Foundation
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/08/2025
‘The streets of Tbilisi are lined with new cameras. It’s unclear how the algorithm would differentiate between a protester and a passerby: I’ve taken up using side streets to avoid them.’ @melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
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Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi
Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/08/2025
‘After the election commission handed the party its fourth mandate, protesters took to the streets. The authorities responded at first with tear gas and mass detentions, before shifting to cleaner tactics.’ @melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
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Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi
Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...
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Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
‪ 'it just eats me alive.’ @melissacrt.bsky.social in Tbilisi for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
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Mélissa Cornet | In Tbilisi
Since the disputed elections of October 2024, protesters have gathered daily in front of the Georgian parliament...
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
SIGAR's final report is out, concluding that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan failed to achieve its core goal of creating a free, stable, and democratic state, despite over $2 trillion in spending and the loss of 2,459 American lives. www.sigar.mil/Portals/147/...
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Ukraine sketchbook from my last trip there, earlier this year
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Russia becomes first country to recognise the Taliban www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Taliban praise Russia’s ‘brave decision’ to recognise their rule in Afghanistan
Islamic leaders, in power since 2021, announce development after talks with Russian ambassador in Kabul
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'll be in Sarajevo next week at the wonderful WARM festival to present our project No Woman's Land. More info on the program: warmfoundation.org/festival/ I'll also be at the Festival des Libertés in October in Brussels: www.festivaldeslibertes.be/2025/fase6?e...
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FESTIVAL Jul 10 2023 WARM Festival 2023 Sarajevo, 10-15 July Jul 4 2022 WARM Festival 2022 Sarajevo, 4-10 July Jul 5 2021 WARM Festival 2021 Sarajevo, 5-10 July Jul 10 2019 WARM Festival 2019 Sarajevo...
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Our project No Woman's Land, documenting Afghan women's lives under the Taliban, and published in the @theguardian.com, won an @amnesty.org International Media Award ! To read the piece: www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @amnestyuk.bsky.social press release: www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
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How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay
The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Our project No Woman’s Land, documenting the lives of Afghan women under the Taliban, won a World Press Photo!
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I wrote a behind-the-scenes account of how Kiana and I made our project No Woman's Land happen, interviewing 100+ women in Afghanistan in 2024. Read it on the VII Foundation website: dispatchesviifoundation.substack.com/p/no-womans-...
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No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet reflect on how they made their award-winning story.
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The making of a photobook: after three intense days of editing, No Woman’s Land will soon exist on paper. More info + Kickstarter + website coming on 8 March! We’re very keen to make the project accessible and educational, for schools to use, so a cheap version will come too (and the free website)
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The recording of our talk on Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, for the VII Foundation, is now available on their website. In it, we deep dive behind the scenes on working as a duo, ethics, informed consent, security, and more. To watch it: theviifoundation.org/resource/doc...
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Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, with Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet
Join us for a talk with journalist Mélissa Cornet and photographer Kiana Hayeri, on their stories covering women's rights in Afghanistan.
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Les photos de notre projet No Woman’s Land sont en couverture de @lemonde.fr — beau travail que de réussir à parler des droits des femmes afghanes
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Women's rights in Afghanistan: ICC requests arrest warrants against Taliban Supreme Leader Akhundzada and Taliban Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, for their responsibility in the crime of persecution on gender grounds. www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Afghanistan
Today, I can announce that my Office has filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Afghanistan. These filings ha...
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The World Today @theworldtoday.org · 10/01/2025
As Afghan women experience ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. @zahrajoya.bsky.social meets the activists resisting this ‘gender apartheid’. Check out our latest photostory by @melissacrt.bsky.social & Kiana Hayeri: www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
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The hidden plight and enduring fight of Afghan women
Banned from much work, high school and speaking in public, women are subject to ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. Zahra Joya meets the activists staging small acts of resistance a...
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NRC @nrc.nl · 08/11/2024
Fotograaf Kiana Hayeri en journalist Mélissa Cornet wisten tijdens twee bezoeken aan Afghanistan honderd vrouwen en meisjes te spreken. Ze willen laten zien hoe hun leven er nu uitziet. buff.ly/4ffazK3
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Vrouw zijn kan in Afghanistan alleen nog onder elkaar
In Beeld: Fotograaf Kiana Hayeri en journalist Mélissa Cornet wisten tijdens twee bezoeken aan Afghanistan honderd vrouwen en meisjes te spreken. Ze willen laten zien hoe hun leven er nu uitziet.
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HitPlay Productions @hitplayproductions.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Resistance. Defiance. Despair. Photographer Kiana Hayeri (whose photos feat. in #AnUnfinishedJourney) worked with journalist Melissa Cornet to document the massive changes to Afghan women's lives since the Taliban took power 3 years ago. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In yet a new ban, Taliban forbid Afghan women from attending training in nursing, midwifery, and other health sectors. Who will take care of the pregnant and sick women and girls in a country where tradition prevents men from doing so?
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Lizzie Porter @lcmporter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Even in provinces where more sympathetic Taliban commanders looked the other way, allowing underground schools to continue [..] women's freedom is still dependent on the decisions & whims of men in power." @melissacrt.bsky.social on erasure of Afghanistan's women www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay
The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair
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Leonardo De Agostini @leodeago.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Saturday au festival du @nouvelobs.bsky.social with Giuliano Da Empoli and Cynthia Fleury: "la démocratie au temps des fake news" and "Avec les femmes d’Afghanistan" with @pierrehaski.bsky.social discussing the great exhibition by Kiana Hayeri and @melissacrt.bsky.social
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David Coleman @havecamerawilltravel.com · 20/11/2024
Exhibition: Afghanistan: No Woman's Land // The exhibition by photographers Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet is showing briefly in Paris. It highlights the severe restrictions imposed on Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule.
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Exposition | AFGHANISTAN : NO WOMAN'S LAND par Kiana Hayeri et Mélissa Cornet
Exposition de photographies, dessins, archives au Réfectoire des Cordeliers à Paris. Produite par la Fondation Carmignac, dans le cadre de la 14e édition du Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme. Dans…
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I wrote a slightly more personal essay to accompany Kiana Hayeri's powerful photo essay on Afghan women's lives, for our long-term project No Woman's Land. Here it is: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay
The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Niche post: if you speak Norwegian (!), here's my latest piece in Panorama on how -- in a regime that tries to deny their humanity -- Afghan girls manage to carve moments of joy and sorority, dancing, playing music, or doing henna, behind closed doors. Link: www.panoramanyheter.no/afghanistan-...
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Når øyeblikk av lykke blir opprør
Etter at Taliban kom til makten i august 2021, har situasjonen for jenter og kvinner i Afghanistan bare blitt verre. Å gå en tur, danse med venner og spille musikk utfordrer Talibans mer enn 80 regler...
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Our exhibition with Kiana Hayeri on women's rights in #Afghanistan, No Woman's Land, is open until 18 November at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris. In the show: photos, sketches, video, as well as collaborative art we made with Afghan teenage girls. Website and book coming in 2025!
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Fell in love with (and in) Georgia on my first trip there (1) and (2) in Kezbagi by the Russian border (3) the monument to the Georgia-Russia friendship (4) in the wine region in the West
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/07/2024
Also in this issue: Stephen Sedley on treason Rosemary Hill on Japanese folk-craft Mélissa Cornet on women in Afghanistan David Trotter on war films Blake Morrison reads Chigozie Obioma Gavin Francis on medicine shortages . . .
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Read my piece in this week's LRB:
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
1,000 days of Afghan girls barred from going to school, and it continues to feel like a constant scream inside everyone’s head. Each year, no new woman nurse, doctor, midwife, teacher graduates, a ticking bomb for women’s health and education #letherlearn #letafghangirlslearn Photo: Nangarhar 2024
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
This gets me every time I fly out of Afghanistan #recognition #genderapartheid
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
A day in Wakhan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, in May 2024. #mediumformat
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
I'm looking for archive images of Afghanistan from the 1920s up to the early 2000s. Any idea where to look beyond Wikimedia and ACKU? 🙏
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
J'ai eu le plaisir de parler au micro de Radio Campus, pour l'émission féministe 'On se lève et on se casse', avec Shakiba Dawod. Une heure pour entrer en détails et en nuances sur la situation des femmes en #Afghanistan, loin du noir et blanc. radiocampusparis.org/emission/v8V-o…
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On Se Lève Et On Se Casse
L'émission féministe de Radio Campus Paris
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Friends in France: my sketches of travelling around Afghanistan these past few years are exhibited until 30 March in Annecy!
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Went to visit the southern province of Zabul in #Afghanistan last month, and got caught in a snowstorm in a normally desertic area. Majestic (but definitely had not packed the right garnments).
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Fieldwork in #Afghanistan aka all the best food 🙏🏼🫶🏼 shola, kabuli polow, best bread, best veggies
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Bargh e Babur, in Kabul, yesterday. 'Better Kabul without gold than without snow' 🤍❄️
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