Afghanistan: the lessons of history? Film maker Meena Nanji talked to Pat McDonnell Twair about the documentary that took her three years to film on a budget of $200,000 in grants, and another two years to edit.

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Afghanistan: the lessons of history? Film maker Meena Nanji talked to Pat McDonnell Twair about the documentary that took her three years to film on a budget of $200,000 in grants, and another two years to edit.

As US PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama forges his foreign policy, he could save time on lengthy debriefings with so-called Middle East experts when it comes to the question of Afghanistan if he were to spend 82 minutes viewing Meena Nanji's documentary View From a Grain of Sand.

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