On any ordinary U.S. airliner, you’re likely to find in the seat pocket in front you an in-flight magazine that romanticizes your destination city. Magazines tend to feature articles with titles like United Airline’s ?Three Perfect Days: Denver? or US Airway’s ?Endless Summer.? But on Afghanistan’s Safi Airlines, the in-flight magazine paints a more realistic ? albeit grim ? reality of Afghanistan. The topics range from a piece on dog fighting to a profile of heroin addicts.

We talk about the unconventional magazine with its editor Christian Marks, who has also created 800 soap operas in Afghanistan and spent two years living there.