Afghanistan: The Center of the World (2021)
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The Saddest Tale of the Shahnama
The people of afghanistan give ear unto the combat of sohrab against rastan, which brings us back to perhaps the saddest tale of the shahnama. By now, suhrab is a grown man, and all he knows of his father is his name, dostam, never having laid eyes on him. On the eve of a great battle, they sit in tents on different sides of the field. Neither realizes that the blood they seek to spill is the same blood coursing through their own veins. And as he lays dying, sohrab cries out, my father will draw thee forth from thy hiding place and avenge my death upon thee when he
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