“Kabul’s Haikus”—fiction from Maryam Mahjoba
In this short story by Maryam Mahjoba, a teacher from Japan travels to Afghanistan to teach at a girl's school.
Maryam Mahjoba
Maryam Mahjoba holds a law degree. She writes short stories and articles. Her short fiction has been published in My Pen Is the Wing of the Bird, New Fiction by Afghan Women (United Kingdom: MacLehose Press, Feb 2022). She lives in Kabul with her family.
Dr. Zubair Popalzai is a Pashto, Dari, and English language translation and interpretation professional with more than 20 years of experience. He is a consultant translator for BBC Monitoring and has worked as an interpreter for UN special envoys in politically and militarily sensitive environments in South Asia. He is also employed as a legal interpreter at solicitors’ offices, tribunals, immigration detention centers, and police contexts in the UK.