Pomegranate Peace

Life on the American compound in Kabul in 2011, just weeks after the most audacious attack on the US embassy in 10 years of war.

For security reasons, almost nothing - and no one - is allowed in or out. For one American diplomat it is akin to being incarcerated in a high-security Federal prison. Aching to feel, touch and taste Afghanistan she begins to explore the country through the food that Najim, an Afghan colleague, brings her from home every Thursday. In the vagaries of the Thursday c...