Taking a walk in Kabul

Published October 28, 2009

When Else Berit Eikeland took a week-long trip to Afghanistan last December, she wanted to experience what it was truly like for ordinary Afghan women. So she went for a walk in Kabul, by herself, with her blond hair and fair skin uncovered. She walked for two hours.

"I had to get the feeling of Kabul, not to be protected all the time," says the new ambassador of Norway to Canada. "I really found...