The anti-Taliban Satire of Ezatullah Zawab
Poetry as an Interrogation of Power By Ivan Pozzoni A Language That Refuses to Obey Ezatullah Zawab occupies a distinctive...
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Rights Erode as Durand Line Tensions Escalate
A country that looks calm on the surface but is cracking underneath. Five years after the Taliban swept back into...
The Long Beard, the Short Reason: Hasib Ahrari’s Satire Against Taliban Fundamentalism
Beard, prayer mat, rosary, sermon, clerical title and memorized Qur’anic verse are not isolated objects of ridicule. Each is a...
Kandahar’s Female Journalists Silenced by Work Bans
“Unemployment has created mental health problems for me. No one can support the family, and I have no way to...
Pashteen Slams Maryam Nawaz for Calling KP and Balochistan a Threat
By Kadeem Baloch Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s recent claim that Punjab faces greater security threats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),...
Afghan Women, Heroes Without Rights
By Sayed Sadullah Sadat Afghan women have long been the silent backbone of their nation, enduring decades of war, political...
The Body and the Pen Under the Black Turban: Pragmatics, Neuro-Aesthetics, and Biopolitics in the Writing of Homeira Qaderi
Exile does not represent the end of Afghan writing; it is the transition of testimony from the national territory to...
One Flag, Many Fault Lines: Aisha Wahab and the Diaspora’s Battle Over Identity
“We are one people… it does not matter if you’re Hazara, Pashtun, Shia, Sunni, American‑born or European‑born.” By Kazim Jafari In...
The Poisonous Snake on the Tongue: Pragmatics, Neuro-Politics, and Subversive Morphometry of the Afghan Landay in the Mirman Baheer Circle
By Ivan Pozzoni The repression exercised by theocratic regimes concerns the control of bodies, spaces, and speech. In the Afghan...
Afghanistan Ambassador’s Independence Day Warning
“Our success and victory lie in national unity.” At the Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe—known as “Little Afghanistan” because it still...
