‘Islam allows what is usually forbidden’: How faith, fear, and loss collided in quake-hit Afghanistan

‘Islam allows what is usually forbidden’: How faith, fear, and loss collided in quake-hit Afghanistan

In the forgotten Afghan province of Kunar, a village rebuilds after the earthquake – far from the world’s attentionIn the village of Spedar, walnuts fall from the trees, and if you listen closely, you can hear the thud. There’s also the babbling of a stream, the lowing of cows, and the distant crowing of a rooster breaking the silence. Girls carry bundles of dry corn stalks and grass from the fields.From above, from the mountainside, the village…