Afghanistan Through Western Eyes
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4.6 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The mystery began over 17 years ago. |
| 0:05.0 | In 1984, photographer Steve McCurry took a photograph of a young girl with an unforgettable fire in her eyes. |
| 0:14.0 | It was a meeting that would create one of the most arresting portraits in our world. |
| 0:20.0 | But hers was a face without a name. |
| 0:22.6 | Tell me about that picture. How you got it? Who is she? |
| 0:25.6 | With the help of cutting-edge technology, Steve has one last chance to find the person behind the face that has haunted him for years. |
| 0:34.6 | But is it too late? Against all odds, Steve's on a journey back to the gateway of Afghanistan |
| 0:42.3 | to solve one of the most challenging missing person cases of our time. |
| 0:47.3 | I was not to ask this matter if he's ever so much good. |
| 0:50.3 | The search for the Afghan girl. Welcome to current affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor in chief of |
| 1:14.9 | current affairs magazine and I am here today with the legendary current affairs editor at large |
| 1:25.0 | Yasmin Nyer. Hello, Yasmin. |
| 1:28.8 | Hi, Nathan. |
| 1:29.6 | So lovely. |
| 1:30.6 | Yes, legendary. |
| 1:31.4 | I like that. |
| 1:33.9 | A legend in her own time, I tell you. |
| 1:36.0 | It's a delight. |
| 1:37.4 | It's a great pleasure to be here. |
| 1:48.4 | But we are here to because you and I have actually both written now pieces that discuss in some way or other the country of Afghanistan and specifically the relationship of the United States and the |
| 1:56.3 | West to Afghanistan. But we look at it through very different stories. I have told the, uh, in this |
| 2:04.1 | article that I've written in Karate Affairs that was published last week. This is the one you wrote |
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