Afghanistan

Video : Washingtonians on Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, DC, Internet, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 16 August 2010 tagged Afghan War Diary, Afghanistan, Aryn Baker, Barack Hussein Obama, Bibi Aisha, COMM 535, Flickr, George W. Bush, Iran, pakistan, taliban, Time Magazine, Video, War Diary, WikiLeaks with View Comments

A few weeks ago I asked attendees at the screening of a documentary in D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood what they knew about Afghanistan. Their responses both surprised and intrigued me. Using this intrigue as the impetus, I began a video project to ask more people in Washington, D.C. what they knew of about Afghanistan. This [...]

Adoption in Afghanistan : When Words Can Cost You a Child

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 12 August 2010 tagged Adoption, Afghanistan, campus progress, Diaspora, guardianship, Kafâla, Orphan with View Comments

For my latest Campus Progress article I set out to try and clarify some of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the adoption of orphans in Afghanistan by Afghans in the global diaspora. Throughout the entire research process (and the criticism that came soon after publication), I was struck by how the difference between two words [...]

Afghan Women and Taliban : More Complicated Than Sensationalistic Time Magazine Thinks

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 29 July 2010 tagged Aisha, Article 132, Aryn Baker, Civilian Casualties, COMM 535, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and their Assault on America, Hamid Karzai, Islamabad, Kabul, NATO, pakistan, Shia Family Law, taliban, Time Magazine with View Comments

The cover of this week’s issue of Time magazine, shows an 18-year-old Afghan girl who had her nose cutoff by the Taliban with a headline that reads “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.” Though there is little doubt of the cruelty and barbarism of the Taliban, Time’s cover story leaves much to be desired. First [...]

Jerome Starkey is Having Fun in Afghanistan : The BNW Interview

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 29 July 2010 tagged Badakhshan, Bamian, Bamiyan, Band-e-Amir, Bollywood, Bozkashi, Buzkashi, COMM 535, Herb-i-Islami, Iran, Jerome Starkey, Kabul, Kabul Dreams, Lemar TV, Leonardo DiCaprio, Moby Group, NATO, Oasis, pakistan, Radiohead, Salon.com, Titanic, Tolo TV with View Comments

They say your attitude determine your latitude Times of London correspondent Jerome Starkey has reported on insurgencies in one of the most dangerous parts of the world while still managing to see some of the most beautiful and historic landmarks of an ancient land engulfed in endless war. The seemingly contradictory processes of war reporting [...]

Malalai, Martyr and Heroine of Maiwand Who Helped Defeat British

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, History, News, Palestine, War, fame on 27 July 2010 tagged Ayub Khan, Battle of Maiwand, COMM 535, Khig, Lycée Malalaï, Maiwand, Malala, Malalai, Malalai Anaa, Malalai Nia, Malalai of Maiwand with View Comments

The daughter of a shepard in Khig, Malalai witnessed her father and fiance join Ayub Khan‘s army. Seeing the Afghans lose ground to the British, Malalai herself took to the battlefield where she is said to have lifted her veil shouting poems and raising the Afghan national flag after the flag bearer was struck down [...]