From 1996, Sarah Chayes was Paris reporter for National Public Radio. She was dispatched to a number of conflict and post-conflict zones. Her work during the Kosovo crisis of 1999 earned her the Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards, along with her NPR colleagues.

Sarah left reporting in 2002 to remain in the field in Afghanistan. She co-founded Afghans for Civil Society, a grassroots Afghan-American democracy building organization based in Kandahar. Among other projects, ACS rebuilt a village, launched a radio station and created a successful women's income generation project. In 2004 she left ACS to focus on economic development, and since May 2005 has been running Arghand.

Sarah's book on post-Taliban Kandahar, The Punishment of Virtue (Penguin Press, 2006) is now out in paperback.

For more background on Sarah, and articles by and about her, please  visit: www.sarahchayes.net.