Afghanistan’s Century of Politicised Education
As the Taliban ban on girls' schools is expanded to universities, Ahmed-Waleed Kakar examines a century of politicised education in ...
Read more
Tag: afghan history
Returning to the Afghan Way of War
With a Taliban offensive taking the country by storm, PhD candidate Mujib Abid examines why both the Kabul's Government and ...
Read more
How The Afghan Government Uses Information Warfare Against US
"...every time we get ready to pull out, you'll find huge increases in the number of... reports of al Qaeda ...
Read more
How Did the US Lose In Afghanistan?
In 2001, when the US was planning to attack Afghanistan and its then adversary, the Taliban, defeat was certain. This ...
Read more
The Durand Line: Beyond Nationalist Fables
For decades, the Durand Line has triggered deeply emotional debates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As is usual, what was a ...
Read more
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 ...
Read more
Book Review – ‘Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know’
In this episode, we are reviewing Barnett Rubin's latest book. Our guest is Suzanne Schroeder, an independent researcher on Afghanistan. ...
Read more
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 ...
Read more
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 ...
Read more
We are The Afghan Eye. We are an independently operated media platform dedicated to critiquing and providing a counter narrative to what mainstream media portrays of Afghanistan.