Tim Ballard
Tim Ballard is the founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a nonprofit that fights against child sex slavery. He is also the CEO of The Nazarene Fund which seeks to save oppressed religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East. Ballard began his career with the CIA and then spent over a decade working as a […]
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 30 years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; McCurry studied film at Pennsylvania State University, before going on […]
Interview with The Power of Women (POW TV)
Sonia Nassery Cole was featured in June 2020 by The Power of Women (POW TV) in an interview with Helene Granqvist.
“I Am You”
The feature film is directed and produced by Afghanistan World Foundation founder Sonia Nassery Cole and based on the stories of the plight of the Afghan people seeking refuge away from their motherland and the conditions that precipitated their extraordinarily, heroic, and difficult journeys. Available on Amazon and Apple. See the Official Site for cast, […]
“The Black Tulip”
Feature film by director Sonia Nassery Cole. After the Taliban is routed from Afghanistan in early 2001, the Mansouri family seizes the new window of freedom by opening a restaurant called “The Poet’s Corner,” with an open microphone and an inviting platform for all to read poetry, perform music and tell their stories. This newfound […]
About Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a geographically landlocked country in Southern Asia. The Central Asian Republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan lie along its northern border, Iran lies to the west, Pakistan to its east, and China at its easternmost Hindu Kush mountainous peak along the Wakhan corridor. The Hindu Kush mountains, the westernmost part of the Himalayan […]
Malalai Anaa Center for Women and School for Girls
Maiwand District, Kandahar, Afghanistan The U.S. Army, 2-34 Combined Arms Battalion, “Dreadnaught” will refurbish a building to establish the Malalai Anaa Center for Women and School for Girls in the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The Afghanistan World Foundation (AWF) established a partnership with Dreadnaught Battalion to support an effort central to its mission […]