Posts Tagged ‘civil society’

Karzai Government Once Again Ignores Women of Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 1 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Article 132, civil society, Hamid Karzai, loya jirga, Malalai Joya, Mary Akrami, Orzala Nemat, Shia Family Law, taliban, UN Dispatch with no comments

As the United Nations and Afghanistan make preparations to negotiate with the Taliban, one group often seen as an after-thought by the Administration of Hamid Karzai once again finds themselves in the periphery: the women of Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai, who had to make it a point to promise more female cabinet members, after his supporters [...]

Video : Vali Nasr ‘Jihad is Not Good for Business’

In Afghanistan, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, News, Opinion, pakistan, Palestine, Politics, religion, TV, War on 23 September 2009 tagged 1979, Afghanistan, Asia, civil society, Comedy Central, Dictatorship, dubai, Europe, Forces of Fortune, Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World, Holocaust Denial, Indonesia, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Islam, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Day, jihad, Jon Stewart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Malaysia, Middle Class, Middle East, Muslim, Muslim World, pakistan, Palestine, qods day, Quds day, Richard Holbrooke, The Daily Show, theocracy, Tufts University, Turkey, United States of America, Vali Nasr with no comments

“It’s so interesting that in the Muslim world the middle class is now rising just as we here in the United States have decided to destroy ours…Our idea was, at least with Iraq. Let‘s completely destroy the society and then they‘ll vote and the middle class will spring up from their love of democracy. Is [...]