Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug picturing a Kalashnikov rifle framed by hand grenades. Another shows planes hitting a World Trade Center overlaid by ...

The end of the U.S.-led military intervention in Afghanistan has resulted in the withdrawal of most foreign aid workers and contractors. It may well also spell the demise of the country’s war rug ...

The rug designs tend to contain symbols – AK-47s, 9/11 and drones – that reflect an outsider’s understanding of war. Kevin Sudeith, courtesy of WarRug.com, CC BY-SA The end of the U.S.-led military ...

When Shams Frough graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he had two major goals: to make a little money before starting medical school and to support weavers in Afghanistan. The Taliban ...

To save the women of Afghanistan, Connie Duckworth interweaves business and charity. At a recent cocktail party at New York's Connoisseur's Antique Fair, Manolo Blahnik-heeled women cooed over ...

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In nine Afghan villages this year, 43 women used new looms to weave their magic for an unlikely customer far away — the world’s largest office furniture company, Steelcase Inc. Their creations, 43 ...

SEATTLE – When Afghanistan's Taliban government became America's avowed enemy, rug dealers started to worry. Some customers at Rugs and Arts of Asia, a store in Seattle's Pioneer Square retail ...

The end of the US-led military intervention in Afghanistan has resulted in the withdrawal of most foreign aid workers and contractors. It may well also spell the demise of the country’s war rug ...

Amid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a pink rug of a Kalashnikov rifle framed by hand grenades. Another shows planes hitting a World Trade Center overlaid by Afghan and ...