Muzhda Uzbek and the Criminalization of Dissent in the Taliban Emirate
The Word as an Offense: From Poetry to Political Surveillance By Ivan Pozzoni The arrest of Muzhda Uzbek, a poet...
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Taliban in Control, but Afghanistan Remains Far from Stable
By Kazim Jafari Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan's rulers face no immediate threat to their authority. Yet...
A Language Beyond Borders: From Rabia Balkhi to Afghan Women Today
Persian is more than a language. It is a living cultural space that continues to connect people across borders and...
Oxford Scholarship Reflects Growing Role of Afghan Diaspora in Women’s Education
While the scholarship is a personal gift, its significance reaches beyond one individual. It reflects a broader trend within the...
Sayed Alam Hashimi: Poetry Under Interrogation: Memory, Dissent, and the Suppression of the Word in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan
The Poet as a Political Problem: Documented Biography and the Construction of Dissent By Ivan Pozzoni What renders a poet...
Emergency Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Security Measure or a New Chapter in Pakistan’s Political Crisis?
Imposing emergency rule on a province already scarred by decades of conflict amounted to another experiment in authoritarian governance. By...
Bakhtari Advocates for Afghan Women in Strasbourg
As international attention increasingly shifts away from Afghanistan, Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan's ambassador and permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna,...
Two Fronts, One Doctrine: Pakistan’s Proxy Warfare from Kashmir to Afghanistan
Pakistan helped create the Afghan Taliban and supported the Haqqani Network, which US Admiral Michael Mullen told the Senate in...
The Writing That Survives Prison: Khalid Qaderi’s Writing of Resistance
The Word as a Seized Space By Ivan Pozzoni Khalid Qaderi’s writing emerges within a geography in which language is...
Civilians Bear the Cost as Pakistan’s Air Campaign Expands into Afghanistan
By Gaheez Salarzai The rubble of destroyed homes in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar and southern Helmand provinces has become the latest...
