Afghanistan

Video : Talibanksy Tags Dollar Signs and Poppies Around Kabul

In Afghanistan, Art, Crime, Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, Politics, War, fame on 16 March 2010 tagged Chand Ast, drugs, graffiti, Insurgents, M.I.A., Paper Planes, poppy, poppy fields, Tagging, taliban, Talibanksy, Video, vimeo with Comments

As M.I.A.’s Paper Planes – a song about hustling as a form of survival in a hostile environment – plays in the background Talibanksy uses guerilla street art to point out the harvesting and trafficking of Opium is funding militants in Afghanistan while bewildered Afghans look on. Amazing.
How much, states the video’s title slide as [...]

Khamenei Tries to Extinguish Flames of Ancient Persian Tradition

In Afghanistan, History, Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, religion on 16 March 2010 tagged #Iranelection, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Chaharshanbe Suri, Charshambe Sori, CNN, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Norooz, Nowroz, Nowruz with Comments

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whom critics the world over was complacent (at best) or instrumental (at worst) in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial win in Iran’s highly contested tenth Presidential election, has come out publicly against the ancient Nowroz festivities observed as part of Persian New Year by Iranians and Afghans the world over:

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Afghan-American Views on U.S. Mission in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, citizenship on 15 March 2010 tagged Afghan, Afghan-American, campus progress, Kandahar, Said Tayeb Jawad with Comments

At the end of 2009 I interviewed Afghan-Americans, the current There are other factors: poverty, unemployment, and warlords. That narrow definition which leaves out those factors is what frustrates the Afghan people.”
Putting Afghans Back in the Afghanistan Debate [Campus Progress]

Lion Hearted Girl : Ariana Delawari on Her Type of [Afghan]-American Modern Life

In Afghanistan, Art, Music, Opinion, Politics, War, fame, fashion on 15 March 2010 tagged Afghan Star, Ahmad Shah Massood, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ariana Delawari, Bamian, Band-e-Amir, Beat Generation, Bjork, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Che Guevara, David Lynch, Fidel Castro, Florence And The Machine, Haight, Haight-Ashbury, Janis Joplin, LA Weekly, Laurel Canyon, Laurel Canyon Rock, Lion of Panjshir, Los Angeles, Me and Bobby McGee, Mujahadin, mujahideen, Mujhaideen, Rabbit Heart, San Francisco with Comments

I must become a lion hearted girl, Ready for a fight
To Afghan-American singer Ariana Delawari, the job of an artist is to take risks and to stand by their vision, no matter the opposition. Perhaps this is why the girl who grew up in Los Angeles with stories of revolutionary leaders and global politics as Madonna and [...]

Video : Tina Brown on Obama’s P.R. Crisis

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War, fame on 13 March 2010 tagged Barack Hussein Obama, change, Charlie Rose, Charlie Rose Show, hope, Michelle Obama, PBS, The Daily Beast, Tina Brown, Video, West Point with Comments

On a March 11 episode of The Charlie Rose Show, editor in chief of The Daily Beast, Tina Brown was asked by Rose what she thought of United States President Barack Hussein Obama.
In particular, Charlie Rose asked Tina Brown what she thought of Obama’s Massive P.R. Crisis and like many of the rest of us, [...]