Afghanistan's Search for Peace 'Koochie Boy'

Seamus Murphy

Newsweek/NY Times Magazine

The Afghan people live their lives as they always have done through their history , at once both the victims and ultimate survivors of their own fate. A Koochie boy gathers rushes from the marshy verges of the riverbank outside Jalalabad. Koochies are nomadic people and in this area of Afghanistan spend the winter in the warmth of Jalalabad and the blistering summer in the relative comfort of the plains around Kabul. October 2004

Seamus Murphy, "Afghanistan's Search for Peace 'Koochie Boy'," in POYi Archive, Item #35632, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/35632 (accessed April 28, 2024).