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The Mother of Cities
Last month, in northern Afghanistan, I visited the rural town of Balkh: rutted dirt streets, no plumbing, erratic electricity, barely a dozen shops in the marketplace. It wasn’t always that way. Arabs once called the site Umm Belad, “Mother of Cities.” Umm is Arabic for… Read More
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