Photographs & Text By Michael Obert
Translated by Jason Nickels
An excerpt from the article that mentions availability of snow leopard fur coats:
Chicken Street, in downtown Kabul, is a string of souvenir shops. Indeed, the only thing that you cannot buy on Chicken Street is chickens, which are available a little further along, on Flower Street. Shop windows boast everything from blown glass from Herat and embroidery from Uzbekistan, to coats made from the fur of the last of the snow leopards, semi-precious lapis lazuli, Central Asian antiques, kilim and Persian rugs. Some of the rugs feature the face of George W Bush wailing bitterly; others depict the WorldTradeCenter in flames as an F-16 squadron flies over an outline of Afghanistan.
