The Bahar Collective
Poetry, art, photography, writing and stories from the people of Afghanistan, shared safely.
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Contributors can use a real name, a pen name, or remain anonymous. Before sharing identifying information, consider privacy and personal safety risks. Every piece is reviewed privately, and nothing is published without permission.
Outside services this site uses Language menu: GTranslate loads only when you open the language menu (or chose a language before), never on sign-in or editor pages. If you choose another language, the page’s text is sent to Google Translate. Names and the published Dari and English versions of each piece are never translated; for any other language, a piece’s English version is roughly translated in a tab of its own. For the most privacy on Share Your Work and Contact, switch the menu back to English before you type.Hosting and visit statistics: Lovable hosts the site and records page visits and which buttons and links are clicked.Images: photographs and artworks load from Wikimedia Commons and Unsplash. Fonts are served by this site itself.These services can see your device’s IP address and browser details when they load. Submissions and messages are stored in the site’s private database, hosted by Lovable Cloud. Editors can manually copy reviewed excerpts into an external translation service. The private translation tool never sends submission text, the admin page or contact details automatically.