Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani and Shah Shuja’s Legacy
As the US' withdrawal is complete, stark similarities with the First Anglo-Afghan War continue to appear even as it ends....
Did the US Liberate Afghan Women?
After 9/11, USA politicians and figures including George Bush’s wife Laura Bush brandished the cause of liberating Afghan women. TV...
Book review: Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England
This book is based on research with a group of South Eastern Afghan Pakhtuns settled in Brighton, England. The men...
Review: ‘The Terrorist in Search of Humanity’
According to Devji the modern terrorist is not concerned with national states, which is why Al-Qaeda often recasts the geography...
Review: ‘Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires’
This book presents an account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a...
Review: ‘Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists who changed the world’
This book is an examination of the rise of Gulbuddin Hekmetyar and his party Hisbe Islami Afghanistan. The Hisbe emerged...
Review of ‘Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist’
The book on Bruce Wannell could be equally entitled Scholar, Spy and Sufi as I will discuss below. Bruce Wannell...
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