A Thousand Golden Cities by Justin Marozzi art of the week and Lord Goodman

and Lord Goodman

did it become a real nation

and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods

A delicious dip can be made using affordable ingredients and store cupboard staples

pulses and vegetables as much as meat and fish

A Thousand Golden Cities by Justin Marozzi art of the week and Lord GoodmanIn the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the War on Terror, it has become synonymous above all with war and terrorism from the Taliban to Al Qaeda and the so called Islamic State crushing levels of poverty and immiseration. In ways which would have been familiar to both Herodotus in the fourth century BC and Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth AD, it