Image and Source Credits

Place photographs

Photographs of real places, licensed under Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons. Each is used unmodified.

• Mashhad, IranPhoto by ALI0513 — Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0
• Shrine of Hazrat Ali, Mazar-e-SharifPhoto by AhmadElhan — Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0
• Road to Kabul UniversityPhoto by Masoud Akbari — Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 3.0
• Sar-e-Pol valleyPhoto by Akhlaqinezhad — Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0

Public domain (credit pending)

Public-domain images sourced via Wikimedia Commons. Specific attribution is being confirmed.

• Herat — used in “Return Road”
• Kabul, 2002 — used in “The Blue Door”

Personal archive

• Portrait of Jalal, Kabul University yearsFrom Jalal Hussaini’s personal archive. Used with permission.

AI-generated atmospheric images

Some atmospheric images on this site were created with AI tools. They are used as transitional mood pieces, not depictions of real places or people. They are clearly labeled in the source attribution below.

• atmospheric/hero-home.jpgUsed as the opening visual and again in “Where Is Home?”.
• atmospheric/passport.pngUsed in “A Date That Followed Me”.
• atmospheric/door-backpack.pngUsed in “Waiting to Go”.
• atmospheric/map-sample.pngUsed in “Rebuilding the Album”.
• atmospheric/contact-hands.jpgUsed in “What You Can Do”.

Writing sources

• Goethe-InstitutJalal’s essay. Specific article URL pending.
• evangelisch.deCompanion piece. Specific article URL pending.
• Shuddhashar FreeVoiceRelated exiled-writer work. URL pending.