| Abdul Razol Bezad has reopened his bookstore on the corner of Flower Street in Kabul after years of hiding his stock at home. "If I had tried to sell these books the Taleban would have accused me of being a Christian," said Bezad, displaying dictionaries, scientific manuals in English and Novels by popular Western writers. He picks up an Atlas of Afghanistan whose cover carries a photograph of three women on a donkey. "Just a few days ago I was prohibited from selling this book," Bezad said in a reference to Taleban objections to the depiction of living beings. "I've kept these books at home for years. Things are different now." |