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Who needs advice?
Read more: Who needs advice?Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.


Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

By Wolayat Tabasum Niroo In the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, talented women sing folk songs to entertain each other in female-only gatherings on happy occasions. The songs are accompanied by a diara or daff, a colorful frame drum made of…