“This year will take from me the hardened person who I longed to be. I am healing by mistake. Rome is also… — Eliza Griswold Failure Copy Share Image
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban. — Eliza Griswold Death Copy Share Image
It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion. — Eliza Griswold Faces Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's. — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of… — Eliza Griswold Certainty Copy Share Image
We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and… — Eliza Griswold Good poetry Copy Share Image
Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be… — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery.… — Eliza Griswold Legacy Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country,… — Eliza Griswold Country Copy Share Image
When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong… — Eliza Griswold Fiction Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre… — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an… — Eliza Griswold Age Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I… — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of… — Eliza Griswold Altered states Copy Share Image
One of the things about landays is that they thrive in a modern context. Early on I went to this incredible Pashtun… — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And… — Eliza Griswold Christianity Copy Share Image
I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is. — Eliza Griswold Daily life Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that… — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty. — Eliza Griswold Injustice Copy Share Image
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. — Eliza Griswold Culture Copy Share Image
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many… — Eliza Griswold Afghanistan Copy Share Image
