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Jungle

Oil Painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Deh Afghanan

Oil Painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Shops in the village

Oil Painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Bazaar

Oil Painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Girls watching the goats

Oil Painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Going to the market

Oil Painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Busy street in the village

Oil painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghani on his donkey

Oil painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Crossing the bridge at sunset

Oil painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Artist Bio: Masoud Omid Faqirzada

Masoud Omid Faqirzada is an Afghan painter who was born in Mashhad, Iran, on November 8, 1989. He returned to Afghanistan in 2001 after Taliban’s downfall.

Women fetching water

Oil painting by Jawid Altaf, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Saving Afghanistan’s Art

By Lauren Comiteau/AmsterdamFor TIMEJanuary 08, 2008 The Taliban’s dynamiting of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001 was only the most dramatic expression of their mission to obliterate…