Avyanna Diplomacy

09/08/2020

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Afghan womens contribution to Afghanistans rich cultural heritage 🧚‍♀️ @ Kabul, Afghanistan

10/06/2020

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05/06/2020

"Afghanistan was once a strategic step along the Silk Road which connected large swathes of Eurasia and contributed to the spread of economic and cultural goods between East and West. While not a major trade route in terms of volume of goods exchanged, it was a foremost corridor for the diffusion of arts, values and skills. Technologies and ideas that travelled along the route were adapted, making new innovations possible and driving world economic growth. All the while, economic surplus nurtured culture. Rich oasis kingdoms along the route became cradles of culture, as prosperous rulers patronized tangible and intangible cultural goods. Monuments, arts, craftsmanship, poetry, all bear witness to the cultural legacy of such economic hubs."

Samina Ansari and Antoine Guillemin-Puteaux write that Afghanistan should take advantage of its cultural resources economically.

30/05/2020

George Orwell corner inside a Kabul bookstore.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. 📖📚

28/05/2020

⁣⁣⁣Did you know that Afghanistan is generally thought of as a nation of two languages, Farsi and Pashto?

In reality, 47 languages are spoken in Afghanistan. In 1924, the Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne (1892-1978) undertook the first of his two major linguistic expeditions. He arrived in Kabul with a personal letter of introduction to the King of Afghanistan from the King of Norway.

Morgenstierne's resulting work, Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan, remains the only study by a qualified linguist of that region.

Source: Amazon.com

24/05/2020

Eid Mubarak - عید مبارک - اختر مو مبارک

21/05/2020

⁣"Morning comes. Stepping out on to a roof, I see seven sky-blue pillars rise out of the bare fields against the delicate heather-coloured mountains.

Down each the dawn casts a highlight of pale gold. In their midst shines a blue melon-dome with the top bitten off. Their beauty is more than scenic, depending on light or landscape. On closer view, every tile, every flower, every petal of mosaic contributes its genius to the whole. Even in ruin, such architecture tells of a golden age. Has history forgotten it?

Not quite. The miniatures of Herat in the XVth century are famous, both for themselves and as the source of Persian and Mogul painting afterwards. But the life and the men that produced them, and these buildings as well, hold no great place in the world’s memory.

The reason is that Herat lies in Afghanistan; while Samarcand, the capital of Timur, but not of the Timurids, has a railway to it. Afghanistan, till literally the other day, has been inaccessible."

From The Road to Oxiana 1934/5 by Robert Byron.