A Thousand Golden Cities by Justin Marozzi art of the week She drifts like a ghost

She drifts like a ghost through the gated driveways and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world

determined woman whose loyalty knew no bounds and whose cache of secrets would have worried even the most upright of royals

A delicious dip can be made using affordable ingredients and store cupboard staples

and Lord Goodman

First published in 1992

A Thousand Golden Cities by Justin Marozzi art of the week She drifts like a ghostIn the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the War on Terror, it has become synonymous above all with war and terrorism from the Taliban to Al Qaeda and the so called Islamic State crushing levels of poverty and immiseration. In ways which would have been familiar to both Herodotus in the fourth century BC and Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth AD, it