Afghan Abs

Benjamin Lowy

Men's Health Magazine

Afghan Abs - A young Afghan man works out in a small store front gym, its walls plastered with the motivating posters of western bodybuilders on April 8 2007. In the six years since the US invasion of Afghanistan and the fall of the Talbian, gyms and specifically the practice of bodybuilding have spread across the country, with more than 90 gyms opened in Kabul alone.

Benjamin Lowy, "Afghan Abs," in POYi Archive, Item #40557, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/40557 (accessed June 8, 2025).