Barukh Shalev Articles
West of Kabul – Kabul, AfghanistanBarukh Shalev discovers that Afghanistan is full of acronyms, like W.H.O., U.N., U.S.A.I.D., W.H.O. – a country that had been ripped open and stuffed full of foreign things.
The Hospitality Club – Athens, GreeceBarukh Shalev finds himself without a place to live – and turns to The Club for survival.
Borderland – China and PakistanBarukh Shalev finds that borderlands are bad places with bad people; barren lands populated by people who are parasitic upon their environment, people who have no choice, people who are stuck in betwe
Fire and Ice: A Halloween Story – Bishkek, KyrgystanBarukh Shalev finds fights every where he turns on Halloween in Kyrgystan.
Afghanistan Part Two: Midnite at the Copacabana – Kabul, AfghanistanBarukh Shalev drinks with the troops in Kabul.
Afghanistan Part One: Every Man A King – Peshawar, Pakistan – Kabul, AfghanistanBarukh Shalev crosses over the border into Afghanistan, going only because it was forbidden and he was afraid.
Twins – Hunza Valley, PakistanBarukh Shalev meets two twin girls with the same unknown disease.
Ultash Language School – ChinaIn China, Barukh Shalev gets into a conversation he’d rather avoid.
Forget Me Not: Notes from a Kashgar Wedding – China, AsiaWhile attending a Moslem wedding, Barukh Shalev peers in on 'girl things', refuses to chant "Allah U Akbar" and gives comfort through a little white lie.
To Live and Die in L.A. – Los Angeles, CaliforniaBarukh Shalev heads to L.A. with bricks of marijuana and a friend and ends up on the wrong side of town on New Year’s Eve.
