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Living in New York City in the fall of 2001 it was impossible not to ask yourself: What can I do? Is there anything I can do to make a difference? For my husband, the founder and President of the Institute for American Values, he asked himself and other prominent U.S. intellectuals: Was the United States right to invade Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden? Soon 60 scholars and intellectuals signed an open letter stating why in concordance with just war theory the United States was following a set of universal moral principles. For those of us who had spent years in the arts, we also asked: What can we do? For me I wanted to see the Muslim world and to visualize the life of those Muslims who I knew must want the same things that are wanted by all mankind: a place to live in peace. I organized an exhibition in New York which looked at sculpture from Afghanistan from the 3rd Century alongside photographs taken in Afghanistan over the last twenty-five years. This was how I came to know the work of photographer Edward Grazda. Read more
