Montly Archive July 2015

This special issue of Politis asia includes nine original articles and interviews from specialists from Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan discussing the isssues of cultural identity and nation-building.

Bengali classic ‘Deshe Bideshe’, which chronicles Afghan history and politics, translated into English. Written by Syed Mujtaba Ali in 1948, ‘Desh Bideshe’ is the only published eyewitness account of that tumultuous period by a non-Afghan.

Armanshahr Human rights and Civil Society, weekly newsletter

We all know that being a writer is hard. Being a woman writer, with all that industry bias and those glass ceilings out there, is even harder. But nothing can quite describe the daring, sometimes terrifying, experience of being a woman writer in Afghanistan

The previous Afghan government believed that America was crucial to solving this problem. Former President Karzai expected America to use its power to force Islamabad to abandon its support for terrorism.