Front page video and Op-Ed on The New York Times by documentary filmmaker and professor Brent E. Huffman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/opinion/a-chinese-threat-to-afghan-buddhas.html

LIVE CNN interview (broadcast on CNN International) from the ancient Buddhist city of Mes Aynak in Logar province:

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/05/race-against-time-to-save-ancient-afghan-site/

Professor and documentary filmmaker Brent Huffman’s CNN Opinion story about The Buddhas of Mes Aynak (front page):

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/afghanistan-buddha-site-mine/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

The Independent in London – Sunday Edition:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistans-heritage-is-at-stake-8537560.html

Radio interview on BBC/PRI’s The World:

http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/afghan-buddhas/

Behind-the-scenes article from the UK-based The Film Review:

http://thefilmreview.com/film-news/documenting-the-buddhas-of-aynak.html

The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/08/a-kickstarter-campaign-for-an-ancient-site-in-afghanistan/

PBS Newshour interview and video (front page):

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2012/12/the-last-days-of-mes-aynak.html#more

An interview with Professor Brent Huffman on Chicago NPR (WBEZ Worldview):

http://www.wbez.org/blogs/bez/2012-06/digging-copper-finding-buddhist-treasures-100415 

Foreign Policy slideshow:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/21/afghanistans_vanishing_buddhas

ABC Australia Radio interview:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-05/interview-brent-huffman/4298578

AOL’s Gadling travel website:

http://www.gadling.com/2012/11/28/mes-aynak-one-of-the-worlds-great-archeological-treasures-is/

Toronto Star:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1302159–afghanistan-archeological-site-in-a-race-for-survival

Toronto’s Travel Culture magazine:

http://www.travelculturemag.com/mes-aynak-turned-into-a-copper-mine/

United Press International:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/06/15/Filmmaker-helps-in-effort-to-save-history/UPI-32841339797721/

The Asia Society:

http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/are-chinese-miners-destroying-2000-year-old-buddhist-site-afghanistan-images#9

Three-page feature story in Tricycle Magazine – the largest Buddhist magazine in the US:

 http://www.tricycle.com/feature/fate-mes-aynak

Tricycle Magazine:

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/chinese-mining-company-might-destroy-ancient-buddhist-ruins-mes-aynak

Past Horizons Magazine:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2012/help-save-the-cultural-heritage-of-afghanistan

NPR:

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/24/161677990/foreign-policy-golden-buddha-hidden-copper 

Archaeology magazine:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/675-130318-afghanistan-buddhism-mes-anyak/675-130318-afghanistan-buddhism-mes-anyak

The Majalla – the leading Arab Magazine:

http://www.majalla.com/eng/2012/11/article55235865

The University of Wisconsin-Madison:

http://news.ls.wisc.edu/?p=11629

Northwestern University:

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/06/huffman-afghanistan.html

Asian Correspondent:

http://asiancorrespondent.com/62197/assistant-professor-showcases-afghanistans-cultural-treasures/

PolicyMic:

http://www.policymic.com/articles/20188/the-buddhas-of-aynak-the-afghan-cultural-site-that-the-world-does-not-care-about

Medill School of Journalism’s National Security Zone:

http://nationalsecurityzone.org/site/chasing-chinas-tail-the-long-road-to-mes-aynak-afghanistan/

Association for Research into Crimes Against Art:

http://art-crime.blogspot.com/2012/09/documentarian-brent-huffman-warns-of.html

Evanston NOW:

http://evanstonnow.com/story/education/northwestern-news/2012-06-06/50103/nu-prof-films-efforts-to-preserve-afghan-heritage

China Digital Times:

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/05/resources-imperiled-buddhas-and-sino-afghan-relations/

South China Morning Post:

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1190941/china-digging-afghanistans-treasure-trove

ARCH International:

http://archinternational.org/mes_aynak.html

Official Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/buddhasofaynak

Many international reports like this one from Malaysia:

http://www.pbs.org/arts/gallery/quick-hits-yuja-wang/qh-yuja-wang-interview/

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1432320499001_2106203,00.html

http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/2011/11/should-documentary-filmmakers-go-to-film-school.php

http://www.semesteratsea.org/fge/speaker-bios

Check out my new project Refugee Lives where Northwestern Medill students document the lives of refugees in three camps in Malawi, Jordan, and Namibia.  I led the trip to Malawi where students reported from the Dzaleka refugee camp near Lilongwe.

Check out the short documentary “Dzaleka Dances” here:

http://www.refugeelives.org/2010/12/17/783/locations/malawi/dzaleka-dances

And all the stories from Refugee Lives here:

http://www.refugeelives.org/

The Colony on Witness:

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2010/09/20109784210335575.html

About The Colony:

The past decade has seen Chinese economic growth explode across the world and the Chinese economic miracle seems to reach into every imaginable area of manufacturing and natural resources.

Filmmakers Brent Huffman and Xiaoli Zhou traveled to Senegal in West Africa to explore the onslaught of Chinese economic might and its impact on long-standing African traditions.