KABUL, died at the age of 90 in Kabul early on Sunday.
She spent more than half of her life (53 years) in Afghanistan on academic research and tourism. She died of her illness at a hospital in Kabul.
Born in 1927 in India to American parents, Dupree first came to Afghanistan in 1962 as a diplomat’s wife. Several years later, she met Louis Dupree, a celebrated US archaeologist in Afghanistan.
She was the founder of the Afghanistan Information Center at Kabul University . . .
