Afghanistan  Masoud Abdul Baqi was born into a family of six children in Kabul in 1984, but spent the first ten... | Afghanistan  Humaira Mohmand was born in near Kabul in 1992 into a family of seven children. Her family stayed in Afghanistan... | Afghanistan  Shugufa Yousofzai was born in Kabul in 1985, but left two years later for Pakistan when the war against the... |
Afghanistan  Mohammad Ullah Yahyapoor’s family comes from the province of Parwan, but he was born and grew up in Kabul. He... | Afghanistan  Nasir Mansoori was born in the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan in 1977. He and his family fled to Iran... | Afghanistan  Mansoor Mohmood Armaghan was born in Kabul in 1983. He is one of 13 children - a large family even... |
Afghanistan  Mohammad Farooq Sarwary was born in Kabul in 1974. He graduated from high school in Kabul but shortly afterwards he... | Afghanistan  Marya Seddiqi was born in 1970 in the province of Parwan in Central Afghanistan. Though only fifteen percent of Afghan... | Afghanistan  Basira Raoufi was born in 1992 and grew up in Kabul. She finished secondary school after the fall of Taliban... |
Afghanistan  Miniature painter, Mohammad Tamim Sahib Zader, was born in Kabul in 1975 and began learning his craft at the tender... | Pakistan  Anjum Rana grew up in the frontier province of Pakistan. She is an interior designer, a therapist and a TV... | Pakistan  Haider Ali was born in Central Punjab, the largest of Pakistan’s four provinces. He grew up in Karachi and... |
Pakistan  Ahmad Ali was born in 1993 in the Punjab area of Pakistan. He came to the city of Karachi... | Uzbekistan  Born in the Fergana Valley in 1972, Rasuljon Mirzaahmedov is a fifth-generation ikat weaver, whose exceptional skills were passed down... | Uzbekistan  Abdul Aziz Isakov was born in the Fergana Valley in Uzbekistan in 1982. He learned the skill of weaving beautiful... |
 Born in 1962 in Mogadishu, Somalia, Farhia is an accomplished table tennis champion who went on to win gold at... | Pakistan  Jali Designs sources beautifully woven patous from Zardozi, a not for profit organisation established in 1984 to support thousands of... | Afghanistan  Master jali-maker Abdul Hedi, 75, is largely responsible for the survival of Afghanistan's tradition of jali wood work. In the... |
Afghanistan  Khalil Hossein Haiderzada was born Herat, in western Afghanistan, in 1957. He studied classical calligraphy at Herat University and later... | Afghanistan  Zolaykha Sherzad was born in Kabul, Afghanistan where she lived until the age of ten. When the Soviets invaded in... | Afghanistan  Wahid has born in Kabul in 1979 and raised in a family of eight children. His parents were open-minded and... |