On November 16th, 2019, Gazelle Samizay and Helena Zeweri launched “Fragmented Futures: Afghanistan 100 Years Later” at the Glendale Central Library’s Reflect Space Gallery in Glendale, CA. Featuring performances by Wazina Zondon and Yusuf Misdaq, “Fragmented Futures” brought a diverse array of attendees from the LA area and beyond. The exhibit, which runs until January 12, 2020, is designed to shift the conversation on Afghanistan and its diaspora, to focus on people’s everyday lived experience of extraordinary historical events. We at AAAWA hope that as the exhibit continues for the next 2 months, attendees get to see that we as Afghans and Afghan Americans are so much more than one dimensional characters in spectacular narratives of empire and war that have been perpetuated for much too long. This exhibit shows how Afghans live in their full humanity–experiencing joy, trauma, family, displacement, belonging, individuality, and community.
