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Seamus Murphy AWP / Newsweek / The New York Times Magazine
"Afghanistan's Search for Peace"





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"Bird Fight" Bird owners , spectators and gamblers congregate in a backyard arena in Kabul's Old City early on Friday mornings to enjoy the non-blood sport of dueling Bodahna's, a bird of desert origin. The birds peck at each other without ever drawing blood.The winner will be the owner whose opponent submits and avoids needless damage to his precious and expensive bird. This is never a fight to the death. Like any pastime that involved domesticated animals, it was banned under Taliban rule. November 2004
 

 

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