Afghanistan – “The Switzerland of Asia”: The Travelogue of Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Hekmat

Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Hekmat's account of his travels in Afghanistan, prepared for publication by Mohammad Asef Fekrat Herawi. Fekrat's introduction is a memoir in its own right: his years in Afghanistan's cultural and press service, roughly 1970 to 1977, and the Iranian writers and scholars who came through in that period — among them Dr. Manouchehr Eqbal and Majid Yektai, whom he met in Balkh in 1970. Text in Dari/Persian.

Author: محمدآصف فکرت هروی

Original title: افغانستان – «سویس آسیا»؛ سفرنامۀ میرزا علی‌اصغرخان حکمت