Aziz Hakimi is a British-Afghan journalist, author, and translator. He has worked with major media outlets, including the BBC, and is the founder of Nebesht magazine.
I have been awake for nineteen days straight. I counted the pebbles in the Styrofoam cup this morning before I come to the shore and lie down on this smooth slab of limestone and watch
Gol Alam insisted that Americans’ blood was green. He said his brother had taken him to see the corpse of an American soldier he’d just killed and he, Gol Alam, had seen it with his