Editor Selection
Iran: Evin prisoners at risk after report of riot
Seraj ul-Haq Fazl: “Educated Afghans will prevent a repetition of the past”
Seraj ul-Haq Fazl is a judicial adviser to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry. He studied at the Islamic Azad University in Iran and obtained a BA from the School of Law and Political Science and an MA in International Law.
Friday 18 April 2014Momina Yari: “I am most worried about the lack of security”
Momina Yari is a member of the Loya Jirga Commission for the US-Afghanistan Agreement and has also worked as a member of the Independent Elections Commission for the past seven years.
Thursday 17 April 2014Sayed Ishaq Gailani: “Our only demand is attention to education”
Sayed Ishaq Gailani is the leader of the National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan and current member of the Wolesi Jirga “House of Representatives” National Assembly of Afghanistan. He spent many years living in exile during the Soviet invasion and the Taliban civil wars.
Wednesday 16 April 2014Sarvar Hosseini: Renovating the education system is a great achievement
Sarvar Hosseini was forced to migrate to Iran after the coup d’état in 1978, where he obtained his BA in Persian Literature and also engaged in religious studies. He later obtained an MA in Management in the US and a Diploma in Academic Research and Human Rights in France.
Tuesday 15 April 2014Iran: Iranian woman at risk of execution: Reyhaneh Jabbari
Fakhera Mousavi: “The Afghan woman rests in the coma of her predecessors”
Fakhera Mousavi is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Lyon in France. She offers her views as a woman who has always lived in exile and has had a different experience of life from that of other women of her homeland.
Monday 14 April 2014Mohammad Afsar Rahbin: “Drugs threaten the entire nation building process”
Mohammad Afsar Rahbin is the Cultural Director of the Ministry of Information and Culture. He has written 12 books, both poetry and literature. He is the first Dari-speaking Afghan poet to have written poems in Urdu.
Friday 11 April 2014Nilab Mobarez: “Women are often deprived of their rights because the men in their family do not feel secure”
Nilab Mobarez, spokeswoman for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), has 23 years of work experience in Kabul and France. She is also a surgeon and a professor at the medical school of Kabul.
Thursday 10 April 2014Mir Ahmad Jouyanda: “They shaved his head because he danced and was happy at his own wedding”
Mir Ahmad Jouyanda is Deputy Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Director of the Culture and Civil Society Forum, and a former Member of Parliament.
Wednesday 9 April 2014