Pakistan’s Proxy War Returns to Nuristan
Whether recruitment is conducted by opposition groups, criminal networks, or regional proxies, the underlying mechanism remains the same: economic hardship...
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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...
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...
The Archive of the Dispersed: Layla Sarahat Rushani and the Poetry Against the Politics of Oblivion
The Word as an Artifact: Exile and the Right to Memory By Ivan Pozzoni The poetry of Layla Sarahat Rushani...
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...
What It Means to Be a Feminist: A Feminism That Makes No Noise
Being a feminist today does not necessarily require wearing a slogan or joining a rally, even as those actions remain...
