Answering Afghanistan's call - The Boston Globe

Answering Afghanistan's call - The Boston Globe

"Answering Afghanistan's call
Architect returns to country he fled
By Susan Chaityn Lebovits Susan Chaityn Lebovits

The gunshots rang out decades ago and far away from his new home in Waltham, but Najim Azadzoi still remembers them vividly.

The year was 1978. Azadzoi had gone to bed the night before anticipating another day of teaching architecture at the University of Kabul.

''My first memory is suddenly you wake up and hear gunshots in the streets,' he recalled, adding that he then turned on the radio, but heard nothing but static. All the stations were off the air.
''People were in the streets wondering what had happened the night before,' he said. ''Then we saw tanks rolling and soldiers marching.'

By the time Azadzoi walked to the university, the radio was back on, announcing that the communists had killed the president and his family, and had taken over the country."



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