Mahmoud Saikal and Kabul’s ‘New City’ Proposal
A Tale of Two Cities
By Christopher Kremmer
How like an architect to see the problems of one city as a reason for building another. It wasn’t his idea but Mahmoud Saikal – architect, refugee, ambassador and long-time resident of Walter Burley Griffin’s Canberra – understandably embraced it. The problem city was his birthplace, Kabul, the historic and once bucolic Afghan capital that was partially destroyed by civil war in the 1
