This event has been cancelled due to the Canberra COVID lockdown. It may be scheduled for the future. Please check our website over the next few weeks.
Join Tim Bonyhady, author of Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium: A history of Afghanistan through Clothes, Carpets and Camera, and co-curator of I weave what I have seen: The War Rugs of Afghanistan for a discussion on his newly released book.
2pm, Saturday August 14: book a place here
From the complete coverage of chadaris to mini-skirts, and back again. From ancient carpet designs to woven depictions of tanks and Kalashnikovs. From photographs of unveiled women to an image of horror—the execution of a kneeling woman known as Zarmeena, videoed covertly by one of the few watching women. This remarkable book provides a history of Afghanistan through the visual.
The Kabul Stadium looms large because it was there, one afternoon in August 1959, that women first appeared in western dress at a celebration of Afghanistan’s independence—a turning point, not only for women in Afghanistan’s cities but also for the country itself, symbolising its embrace of the modern. It was also there, one afternoon in November 1999, that the Taliban killed Zarmeena.
Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium offers both a new way of seeing Afghanistan and a new way of understanding it.
Tim Bonyhady’s books include the award-winning Good Living Street, The Colonial Earth and The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat. He has curated two landmark exhibitions of Afghan war rugs, including I weave what I have seen: The War Rugs of Afghanistan
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/two-afternoons-in-the-kabul-stadium-a-history-of-afghanistan-through-clothes-carpets-and-the-camera
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