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Good morning
#Kabul
🫂🍀🕊 - we are painting a mural today-now. It reminded me of the famous scene from
@TitanicMovie
, where the musicians play until the ship sinks. I hope you are enjoying as you see our miseries - world 🌎
My heart shatters to see and talk to Afghan artists who have started destroying their own art out of fear.
#Afghanistan
is becoming black and white again. It’s losing its beauty, diversity and colors. I am afraid the world will let this happen again!
The faces of new
#Afghanistan
. A series of murals introducing the Ambassadors of hope. The everyday heroes. A female football player, a legendary cricketer, world known photographers, musicians and a brave journalist. They rise from ashes and they represent the new Afghanistan.
@AdityaRajKaul
It pains me to see this happening! I am ashamed that we failed to protect our diversity and that the Afghan people have to leave their ancestral homes.
And it begun. The Taliban have started painting over our murals. They started with the historic one that marked the signing of
#DohaDeal
.
#BaradarKhalilzadMural
is no more. Instead, the black and white message says don’t trust the enemy’s propaganda, quoting Mullah Haibatullah.
Picture from social media says: “Don’t take me to a safe place; help me save my homeland!” The world cannot resettle millions of Afghans who stand up against terrorists & for their human rights. Help us defeat them for the sake of humanity. Let’s not budge to terror & barbarism.
The
#Ambassadorsofhope
& pride of
#Afghanistan
. They bring joy to a nation in dire need of love, empathy and kindness. This country has so much more to offer. We have to show the positive side of our homeland to the world. We are getting ready - 50 days to
@cricketworldcup
#CWC19
This is the new
#Afghanistan
. President
@ashrafghani
with
#Sikh
&
#Hindu
community leaders. Our diversity is beautiful. Let’s embrace that! All the lands and homes of Sikh people which were grabbed illegally should be returned to their rightful owners.
The whole world failed them. We lied to them. We gave them hope - told them to dream. They grew wings & thought they have the liberty to choose. To go to school, university, get elected and decide for themselves. Not anymore.
@ArtLordsNet
mural “We are the future of Afghanistan”
You might be able to erase murals from the streets of
#Afghanistan
, you may be able to silence the voices in parts of the country for a while, but we will shout so loud that we will be heard. You wont be able to erase this from the memories and conscious of the world?
#ISeeYou
قصه از کرکت و فوتبال و انواع دیگر ورزش است.
۵۰ روز تا جام جهانی کرکت مانده، آرزو دارم که این بازی ها را در فضای باز پارک شهرنو، عینو مینه قندهار، باغ امیر شهید در جلال آباد، پارک ملت هرات و بند امیر بامیان ودیگر نقاط افغانستان همه باهم تماشا کنیم، لذت ببریم ولبخند بزنیم.
Lima asks me to fix this 😢 She wants me to bring her back. She has asked me a thousand times “why”? Why she was brutally murdered and taken away from our lives. The pain is so devastating. The loss is so great. Natasha, we miss you. 💔
روز جمعه بود. بار بار از پدرم خواستم تا مرا به استدیوم غازی برای دیدن بازی فوتبال ببرد. چند بار گفت نه نمی رویم. ولی من اصرار کردم و مجبور شد که هر دو با بایسیکل به دیدن بازی فوتبال برویم. پیش از شروع بازی، طالبان دو نفر جوان را در مقابل چشمانم سر بریدند.
#بهطالبانباجندهید
She would have been 27 years old today.
Taliban cowardly and brutally murdered
@NKhalilAhmad
. Our family has never been the same. The pain of losing her has left a big hole in our lives.
She loved life. She was amazing. She had many dreams and hopes. She was my family and above
Growing up, due to war and poverty, my family never had a chance to take me to a gallery. However,
#ArtLords
new gallery is open and free of charge. Bring your kids, students and family. Let’s reintroduce the lost values of promoting art & culture and collecting and talking art.
She just turned 18. Born post 9/11. She voted in
#AfghanElections
today. Look at that smile and the hope for a peaceful Afghanistan. She believes! Photo by
@HashteSubhDaily
!د عدم تشدد لوی مبارز خان عبدالغفار خان په یاد
#پاچاخان
Our dearest friend
#RawailSingh
, co-Founder of
@ArtLordsWorld
who is painting this mural for countering violent extremism, was killed in a suicide attack last year.
#BachaKhanWeek2019
#PachaKhan
The new Government of Talibanistan has 33 Mullah’s as Ministers and Deputy Ministers which includes 4 Haqqani’s as Cabinet members. The list includes internationally recognized terrorists.
این قطار مردم برای خرید تکت یک نمایشگاه نقاشی در ایتالیا است. ما هر روز اعلانمیکنیم که گالری ما درکابل رایگان برای تان باز است. چای زعفرانی و لبخند و مهمانوازی هم میکنیم. ولی روزانه ۵ نفر هم نمی آید. حالا یکی پیدا میشه میگوید که نقاشی ما تا اروپایی ها بسیار فرق دارد.
سرشار از عشق و محبت بود.
تازه درس هایش خلاص شده بود و با هزاران اخلاص وشوق شامل کار در کمیسیون حقوق بشر افغانستان شد.
کاکه و رفیق همیشه درکنار هر یک ما بود. میخندید ومیگفت “همه چیز جور میشه”.
یک هفته قبل سالگره ۲۴ سالگی اش بود،
My baby sister, my child was taken from me in this car. I told her to come back to Afghanistan, I told her this country needs her. How I will ever forgive myself? I am sure she was not hurt, I am hoping she didn’t feel the pain of the blast
@TOLOnews
A week ago they took away a beautiful smile, an amazing soul, a kind human being who only wished to be happy and make others happy.
@Limaahmad
and I with a heart full of love and empathy only wish that this cycle of violence, hatred and anger stops! We must heal. We must love.
Last year, they brutally and cowardly murdered our Natasha
@NKhalilAhmad
. This year, with
@EnabledChildren
,
@ArtLordsWorld
and your support, we established the Fatima Khalil School for Differently-Abled kids. 1/2
Najibullah was 25, student of journalism, loved music 🎼. The bus carrying him & other passengers hit a roadside bomb 💣 in BalaMurghab, Herat province. He died. Like Najibullah, around 35 thousand civilian humans have been killed since 18 years.
#Afghanistan
’s pain is our pain.
I will speak/write extensively about my last two weeks of life in
#Kabul
.
I’m shattered but grateful that I’m in a safe place with some of my family.
I witnessed kindness from so many humans, I saw many countries/nations at work to help.
I lost a lot. We lost a lot as humanity.
A US Army Colonel bids farewell to Afghanistan and Faryab Province Governor with tears in both of their eyes. The Human stories of friendship, working and fighting together will always remain. We have more work to do.
#AfghanistanRemembers
#AfghanPeaceProcess
She is taking the first steps after the trauma & injury of May 8 explosion which murdered 90 of her schoolmates & injured 150 beautiful souls.
She tried to take a break from her thoughts by painting a mural in her school.
She is powerful.
The story of our lives in
#Afghanistan
.
My 33-year-old cousin in Kabul has cancer. Doctors say he can't be treated in
#Afghanistan
and needs to go to
#India
or Pakistan. Since Aug 2021, India's visa process has been inaccessible, like Afghanistan doesn't exist. Our only hope is the Islamic Republic of
#Pakistan
. They
A couple of months late, but I wanted to share a personal news.
I will be spending a year at
@Harvard
.
A great opportunity to share, learn and relearn and new initiatives at
@MHCHarvard
and Department of Arts, Film and Visual Studies.
@HarvardArtsHum
.
18 years ago today,
#Taliban
destroyed the biggest stone statue of
#Buddha
carved in the mountains of
#Bamiyan
. Team
@ArtLordsWorld
’s tribute to our rich culture and history. We will not forget.
This is not the end. I’m 34-I witnessed 6 regime changes; Soviets invasion, Najeebullah’s Gov, Project Mujahideen, Project Taliban, American/NATO invasion & now Taliban in power again.
What was common in all of this: Many heroes stood up, most cowards, many beautiful souls lost.
Spending time on the Shikara, HouseBoat on the Dal Lake and riding horse to the Glacier in Gulamrg reminds me of my honeymoon good times with
@Limaahmad
in Srinagar
#Kashmir
.
Kashmiri boatmen await
#G20
delegation for a Shikara ride earlier today at Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. This
#G20Kashmir
meet has been a significant success story. Pakistan tried all its tricks to scuttle the event but failed miserably. Common Kashmiris have welcomed G20 and
Shattered hearts! Shattered souls! And shattered bodies now. Who would have thought that this is the might of American power and promise of democracy and human rights.
#Afghanistan
Translating it for the world to read: My journalist colleagues were not only harassed/arrested but tortured. Tortured for 4 hours. They fainted four times and the merciless torture continued. They have extremely bad injuries all over their bodies. They could have been killed.
اصلاح می کنم:
همکاران مورد خشونت قرار نگرفته اند، آنها «شکنجه» شدهاند. شدید، متفاوت و بی سابقه. در طی چهار ساعت، چهار بار بیهوش شدهاند و به هوش آمده اند. می توانست حتی حالا زنده نباشند. بدن شان کبود و راه راه سیاه سیاه است. آنها شکنجه شدهاند بسیار طولانی و بیرحمانه.
Congratulations for living a beautiful life
@Limaahmad
. I am humbled by your courage and being a role model for many.
This is a big day for our family. Master of Arts in International Law and Diplomacy from
@FletcherSchool
Dear female
#Afghanistan
National Football Team: we are proud of you for showing a positive image of Afghanistan. Keep going. Make Afghanistan proud! This is the new
#Afghanistan
.
#BeGone
sport terrorists!
Every tulip 🌷 represents an innocent Afghan live lost to terrorism. 35 Thousand civilian lives lost in the last 18 years. We remember them. Afghanistan’s pain is our pain.
This is today in Kabul. Afghans witness such violence from evil soldiers everyday & everywhere Mr
@CMShehbaz
. As a human & your Muslim brothers & sisters, we deserve a break. We don’t have anything to do with
#Kashmir
. You can’t imagine the pain & suffering we have gone through.
فلم پانی پت را امشب دیدم. خیر وخیریتی بود. سینما تقریبا خالی بود. واکنش هایاولی ما افغان ها به این فلم نشان میدهد که چقدر زود شمشیر از غلاف میکشیم وقضاوت میکنیم.
Hard questions by
@LNajafizada
of
@TOLOnews
; confident & brave responses by President
@ashrafghani
. It was timely and critical. I’m proud of our freedom of expression & media. None of our neighboring countries have anything close to what we experience in Afghanistan.
A kind request from my friends in
#Afghanistan
; please support Afghan artists, they are the most vulnerable-poor but people with dignity. If you need gifts for a wedding or birthday or something for your home or office, a painting/miniature is the perfect fit.
#ArtLordsGallery
With love ❤️ from
#KabulJan
- scared, wounded, betrayed and left behind. So much love, kindness and empathy is needed to heal this city. Today’s footage from a drone captured by a dear friend.
#Afghanistan
We faced many challenges daily; suicide attacks, sticky bombs, kidnappings, Gov. & Int’l community’s corruption-incompetence; BUT, we loved our work. We continued doing our part; taking responsibility, healing wounds. Not anymore. What a pleasure painting for you my
#Afghanistan
.
Love & respect has been the foundation of our relationship.
Our friendship, empathy & adventures made it more human & beautiful.
Happy or sad, easy or difficult; we have augmented & uplifted each other.
To more of this Zindagy
@Limaahmad
.
12th year of our marriage anniversary.
My heart bleeds while looking at
#FathimaMohammadi
's artworks. A brilliant artist contributing to
@ArtLordsNet
Gallery. She was telling the stories of pain, suffering, hope and kindness through her work.
She is no more. Blown and Burnt! Just like that.
How brutal and inhuman.
کرایه های ملیونی خانه وزیر اکبر خان، خرچ دسترخوان و موتر زرهی فرعون های حکومتی قضا نمیشود. ولی داکتر که شب و روز با کرونا مبارزه میکند و خدمت میکند، ۳ ماه معاش اش اجرا نمی شود.
55% of Afghanistan's population live under poverty.
The cost of this car (used by MANY Gov officials) is equal to:
870000 Bread
Monthly Salary of 725 soldiers
Annual Salary of 145 Municipality Cleaners.
The mural says in Dari "They even steal soldiers bread"
The midnight that I was forced to leave
#Kabul
- my home, and leave everything behind. It’s a month since then and I am still in a refugee camp with my family awaiting a response for our next destination. I don’t know how long it will take to process this trauma!
#Afghanistan
Most of us were forced to leave our motherland to have the freedom of expression. Many of us are left behind who wish to leave. Your donations and support will make a huge difference.
Please support Afghanistan's Artivists Assistance Fund via
@mightycause