Word: abuldrahizmi
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Dates: during 2008-2008
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...Afghan capital can't get enough KFC--Kabul Fried Chicken, that is. The city hosts four competing knockoffs of the global fast-food chain, complete with their own secret recipes, as well as logos copied from the Internet. "I consider myself the Afghan Colonel Sanders," says one entrepreneur, Mirwais Abuldrahizmi. No word yet on whether Yum! Brands, KFC's corporate parent, based in Louisville, Ky., plans to file a lawsuit to the contrary...
...Kabul Fried Chicken is, if he is to be believed, the brainchild of Mirwais Abuldrahizmi, who long ago observed that the young people of the Muslim world like to express their cosmopolitan yearnings through their consumption habits. And returnee Afghans, like himself, bring with them visions from exile of girls without headscarves, shopping malls as social hubs, and the rituals of fast food. Many of today's young Kabulis are as nomadic as those who traveled the silk road hundreds of years ago, as the return of thousands forced into exile by successive wars enables an uneven cosmopolitanism to take...
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