Wazir akbar khan biography of nancy
The piece looks at Nancy's last project, the uploading of thousands of historical photographs to the site of the Afghanistan Centre at the Kabul University.!
Nancy Hatch Dupree’s Last Project: Afghan History Revealed in Photographs
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AAN was due to post this dispatch when we heard the news of the death of the great archivist, historian and advocate for Afghanistan, Nancy Hatch Dupree.
Nancy H. Dupree, and to Jonathan Lee, both of whom have supported my project from Kabul.
The piece looks at Nancy’s last project, the uploading of thousands of historical photographs to the website of the Afghanistan Centre at the Kabul University (ACKU), the successor institution of the ACBAR Resource and Information Centre (ARIC) founded in 1989 in Peshawar.
The images take the viewer on a journey through Afghanistan’s history, the landscapes of its provinces, and memories of hope, despair and determination to thrive again. The project is an embodiment of Nancy’s belief that “for a nation to prosper, it must have an involved citizenry and they must have access to knowledge.” This piece, write AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and Kate Clark, is partly a look at the collection and also a first brief obituary for a woman many people