School Kabul, Marefat High

Captain Edward Zellem is the award-winning author of three bilingual books of Afghan Proverbs, now published in 15 languages as a personal project. He is a U.S. Navy officer and trained Dari speaker who spent every day for a year and a half on native Afghan teams in Afghanistan. This included a year on President Hamid Karzai's staff inside the Presidential Palace of Afghanistan. While in Afghanistan, Captain Zellem became fascinated with the way Afghans use Proverbs in their daily conversations. He began collecting and translating them, and used them every day with Afghans in his professional