From Foreign Policy:
How 26-year-old Nasim Fekrat helped create Afghanistan's blogosphere out of thin air.
At this point, the litany of contemporary Afghanistan's problems is well known. The country has few paved roads, let alone computers; its population is poor and illiterate; it is blighted with poverty, disease, and violence. For the past 30 years, Kabul has been under the control of radicals, strongmen, foreigners, or some combination of the three. Only rarely can the foreign reporters who describe these conditions leave the safe bubble of Kabul or the back seat of an armored vehicle. As a result, Afghanistan's people, culture, and traditions remain woefully unknown to the world, or reduced to crude stereotypes.
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My Comment: Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit once called bloggers an army of Davids. Well .... Nasim Fekrat is the first David in Afghanistan
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