Afghan art undergoes a revolution
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For 25 years, Mohammed Akbar Salam painted the style that he and his colleagues knew &#151; realism. Under the ultra-restrictive Taliban regime, depictions of the human figure were forbidden, and their work shriveled to an austere repertoire of calligraphy and still life.
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An afghan electoral worker counts Yunus Qanooni&#39;s ballots papers at the counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 18.
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President Hamid Karzai inaugurated Afghanistan's rebuilt national museum Wednesday, the latest effort to shed a positive light on the country's sluggish reconstruction 10 days before landmark elections.
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An art exhibition in Berlin features the Red Army Faction - a radical group that battled German police for two decades.
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Afghanistan&#39;s first directly-elected president, Hamid Karzai, has identified two issues - warlordism and Afghanistan&#39;s booming drugs trade - as targets for change.
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With the reopening of the Bode Museum, a cultural park in the former East Berlin has taken another step toward recovering its place as one of the worldÂs great centers of art.
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A young artist proudly displays her latest painting, an abstract of scattered body parts. It's a reflection of reality in Baghdad, she says. Residents tell CNN's Arwa Damon the surge has reduced daily violence, but it's done little to shake the horror they've witnessed. "Here, there are no guarantees," a girl says.
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For 30 years coups, assassinations and invasions were the usual means of power transfer in Kabul. But yesterday Hamid Karzai broke with bloody tradition and assumed office with a simple formula of words.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai's inauguration as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- They arrived in December 2002 to do what had never been done : bring remote, unruly Paktia province under the control of a central Afghan government.
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Mohammad Zahir Shah returned to Kabul from exile in 2002. He had been deposed in 1973 after a 40-year reign.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - There are no paintings in  the Tajbeg Palace, but the bullet-pocked walls tell their own  epic tale of Afghanistan's turbulent history.
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Mukta Arts makes an unusual announcement.
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Officials tout the massive art installation as a sign that the city has recovered from Sept. 11.
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Some 200 artworks from the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul will begin a 17-month tour in the United States in May.
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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Afghanistan&#39;s election had problems ranging from delible ink to untrained poll workers, but those flaws did not tarnish the remarkable accomplishment of a nation, which only three years ago was under control of the oppressive Taliban, holding its first