Our Village

It is an anthology in which each poem reveals inequalities, imbroglios, pride, sympathy, nostalgia, and missing peace and stability in war-torn Afghanistan.

Already vastly popular in Afghanistan and surrounding areas, copies of Our Village have been requested to be mass produced.

About the Author

Mojib Rahman Atal is an Afghan poet and writer, born in 1981 in Northern Kunduz province. He is writing for the Afghan publication in Dari and Pashto, the two official languages of Afghanistan. He is also a scriptwriter and director. He has directed and produced a documentary film about Croatia (Croatia Today, Engagement and Contribution in Afghanistan). He has studied political science and worked previously as political advisor with the German Consulate General in Mazar-e Sharif and moved to Germany as an emigrant after Taliban captured Kunduz city in late 2015.

Our Village is Atal's second book after Heela (a collection of Pashto poems published in 2012), as an anthology of Modern Afghan Poetry in English.