{"id":6641,"date":"2022-01-15T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T09:04:26","slug":"refugees-of-afghanistant-peyman-hooshmandzadeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/refugees-of-afghanistant-peyman-hooshmandzadeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees of Afghanistan in Iran: a Photo Essay by Peyman Hooshmandzadeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6651\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6651\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-1320x882.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afghan refugee children, photographed by Peyman Hooshmandzadeh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Peyman Hooshmandzadeh (photos and text)<\/h4>\n<p>Translated from the Persian by Salar Abdoh<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">In Iran, Afghan refugees have been a part our everyday lives for over four decades now. Their stories amaze and trouble us, and probably more so because their land is so near and in so many ways they could be us \u2014 their language, their frames of reference to classical Persian verse, their heroes from our shared mythologies. And yet, running into this particular group of refugees in a manmade nowhereland just a stone\u2019s throw away from the Caspian Sea \u2014not more than four kilometers from an amusement park by the beach \u2014stunned us day trippers into a retreat.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6641 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/142-tir74-x5-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/142-tir74-x5-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/142-tir74-x5-3.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/142-tir74-x5-3-600x399.jpg 600w, 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https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/172-mhr74-21-1320x882.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6651'>\n\t\t\t\tAfghan refugee children, photographed by Peyman Hooshmandzadeh.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">We had taken the backroads to reach somewhere quiet where we could go swimming. Now we suddenly were surrounded by these families who spoke an almost otherworldly iteration of our shared language. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">They immediately took us for journalists who had come to interview them. Their wants were basic \u2014 water, when they (a landlocked nation) were not more than a few minutes\u2019 drive from the sea; electricity, when a power relay station was barely a hundred meters off; and, of course, a place where they could rest at nights and not have to worry about sand from the sea blowing into their sleep. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">Their world away from the world was made of bamboo and sand. This was the north and they looked like no one from the north of the country. It took only a minute to realize who they were, though why they were there and how they had gotten there was a mystery. We were too nonplussed to ask them anything. It was they who did the asking, believing that surely we had come to report on their woeful conditions and somehow save them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">The odd convergence of intent and reality silenced us. Yes, we were writers and photographers. But we had come here not to report or write today; instead we were here to get wasted on booze and swim a little. We were on a brief holiday. Yet the ever-present camera in my hand made these families certain we had come to inquire about their lives. Children surrounded us, each pulling us toward their own rickety hut. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">We were veterans of these images. I for one had already travelled to Afghanistan more than once on shooting assignments. But in that summer of 1998, when I still used negatives for picture taking, and the Taliban were firmly in control of most of their country and it would be a long time yet before the Americans made their ruinous entry, we had imagined, and rightly so, that the Caspian shore would be the absolute last place in Iran where we\u2019d find a gathering of completely isolated refugees. It was as if time itself, and certainly the authorities, had utterly forgotten about this place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">We slowly began to withdraw \u2014 not toward the intended beach, but the way we\u2019d come. An afternoon of debauchery was certainly out of the question now. We wore the unbearable guilt of men and women who would shortly go back to the routines of their comfortable lives at the capital. And when the refugees asked if we would make their voices heard in that faraway place, we nodded our heads and said yes, we surely we would. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">We never did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Iran, Afghan refugees have been a part our everyday lives for over four decades 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