Afghanistan - Kabul - Portrait of Daily Life

Engineer Ebrahim Faizi, 27, hotel manager and architect and Sultan Mohammad, 74, carpenter and handy man. Sultan has been at the hotel since he started work over 50 years ago. He remembers a time when girls use to wear mini skirts in Kabul. Ebrahim has lived at the hotel most of his life, during the civil war and some time during the Taliban era he left for a year. He had to hide at the back of the building during factional fighting in the civil war. The hotel took hits from rockets at least 20 times during one vicious fight. "I was here in the civil war but when the Taliban came I left. Every day a hundred or two hundred rockets were fired, inside and outside the city. In 2001, this city was totally devastated. We took at least 20 rockets in this building. We were in the back hiding. It went on for hours. It was just me, mum, uncle, and the Mujahideen." (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)