Afghanistan: "This is Our Fate" --- An Encounter with My Friend Massoud Hossaini about Photography, Life, and a Suicide Bombing

Photograph: Massoud Hosseini (Agence France Presse/Getty)

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Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini was awarded a Pulitzer Prize today for his visual portrait, posted above, of the scene of a bombing in Kabul in December. Days after that episode, EA's Josh Shahryar spoke with his friend --- this article is reprinted from 13 December:

Formalities become meaningless when you call an old friend who has survived a suicide bombing that took the lives of dozens. My friend Massoud Hossaini understood that just as well as I did.

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Afghanistan: "This is Our Fate" --- An Encounter with My Friend Massoud Hossaini about Photography, Life, and a Suicide Bombing

Photo: Farzana Wahidy (AFP)I did not ask him more about what had happened. He did not talk about it himself. He expected me to understand what had happened and I did.

Can I convey this so anyone else who is not Afghan and does not have a fate tied to Afghanistan understand? I hope not. The burden of that understanding means that Massoud Hosseini is now a subject about whom I write, not a friend whom I once knew and with whom I laughed.

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