Writing
About everything Afghanistan: food and restaurants, travel, getting papers done, culture, and plain explanations of the rate and the calendar.
Photo: Qasim Mirzaie
Why prayer-time apps disagreeTwo phones in the same room can show Fajr a quarter of an hour apart, and Asr an hour apart. Neither is broken. They are answering slightly different questions, and once you know which ones, the differences make sense.
Photo: Qasim Mirzaie
Why Eid is marked "expected"On the holidays page, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Ashura and the Mawlid carry the word "expected", while Independence Day does not. That is not hesitation. It is…
Photo: Qasim Mirzaie
The solar calendar, Hamal to HutAfghanistan keeps three calendars at once. Rent, school terms and the seasons run on the solar Hijri calendar; prayer, fasting and the Eids on the lunar one;…
Photo: Mirwais Mohammadi
How this site keeps its figures honestA figure without a source is a rumour. Everything on this site that can be checked says where it came from and when it was last checked, and the site is built…
Photo: Qasim Mirzaie
How the afghani's rate is setThere is no single office that decides what a dollar costs in afghanis. The rate is made every working day by money exchangers trading with each other, mostly…