civil war. Fazal Sheikh found himself drawn into the recent history; into stories of death and martyrdom, as they recount their flight from Soviet troops, the jihad - the holy war, which drove out the Russians in 1989 only to be succeeded by a devastating civil war between rival Mujahedin factions which prevents them returning now. In these villages of Northern Pakistan, Fazal Sheikh, his grandfather's namesake, finds himself thrust into the middle of a conflict that rules the lives of these people who now colonize his grandfather's lands. It is a contemporary conflict currently without a solution, and his portraits and stories tell us first-hand, in more detail than any news report or history book, what the people of Afghanistan have experienced, what they hope for, and what they have lost. He listens to the plight of the Afghan women who
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