Episode 27: "The Girl in the Green Dress" - a Kabul photo that one the Pulitzer Prize 25-1
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2012-11-26
AFP Photographer Massoud Hossaini took a photo known as the "Girl in the Green Dress."
It shows a 12-year-old Afghan Shia Muslim girl, Tarana Akbari, crying near dead and injured people after explosions during a religious ceremony at the Abul Fazel shrine in the centre of Kabul. On this episode of Asian Threads, Reenita talks with Massoud to discover the story behind the photo ---- what happened on that holy day of Ashura and the circumstances guiding Massoud's capture of that heartbreaking image one day in Kabul.
25-11-2012
It shows a 12-year-old Afghan Shia Muslim girl, Tarana Akbari, crying near dead and injured people after explosions during a religious ceremony at the Abul Fazel shrine in the centre of Kabul. On this episode of Asian Threads, Reenita talks with Massoud to discover the story behind the photo ---- what happened on that holy day of Ashura and the circumstances guiding Massoud's capture of that heartbreaking image one day in Kabul.
25-11-2012