Works: Day Watch, Night Watch, The Irony of Fate 2, Yolki 2, Escape from Afghanistan Boris Akunin Age: 68 Boris Akunin (Russian: БорисАкунин) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (Russian: ГригорийШалвовичЧхартишвили; Georgian: გ...
Lucian Perkins is an American photojournalist, who is best known for covering a number of conflicts with profound compassion for his photograph's subjects, including the war in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. It has been said that Perkins has a developed style that not only...
McCurry’s career started in Afghanistan right before the Soviet aggression gained its strength. He managed to hide a few rolls of film from military customs in his things. His most famous work is “Afghan Girl” but there are many other beautiful pictures published in the New York Times and...
For the next two decades war became a mainstay of Don's journalism, initially for the Observer and, from 1966, for the Sunday Times. In the Congo, Biafra, Uganda, Chad, Vietnam, Cambodia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and more, he time and again combined...
He received his first award, the Robert Capa Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, in 1980 after his first trip to Afghanistan. Because of the hostile environment and the war taking place between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Mr. McCurry had to disguise himself in local dress to cross...
49. Mohammad Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan Afghanistan, 1914-2007 Haji Amin Qodrat, Kabul, Public domain,via Wikimedia Commons Shah gave his country a country a constitution and made it a democracy in the 1960s. He was deposed as Afghanistan into war 10 years later. He lived in exile ...
In 1973 she travelled overland to India via England, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. After two years in India she moved to Germany. Sharon now divides her time between England and Germany with her husband and two children. Sharon's novels Of Marriageable Age, Peacocks Dancing, and ...
Bristol and Meyer first met in 2014 when the Afghanistan war veteran was in Alaska to film an episode ofAmazing America. They began dating shortly afterward andgot engagedin March 2015. Two months later, days before they were set to marry, they called off their engagement, which ...
scene of Hulagu Khan's 1256 siege against theAssassinsor Hashshashin. Marco Polo's account, taken from local tales, may have vastly exaggerated the fanaticism of the Assassins. Nevertheless, he was very happy to descend the mountains and take the road toward Balkh, in northernAfghanistan, fame...
laid the groundwork for the rise of islamist extremism in afghanistan. the film was directed by mike nichols, who first worked with roberts on 2004’s closer. “the thing about great actors, and she is a great actor,” nichols says, “is that we don’t know how they do it, we ...