Out of Bounds
Afghan Couples: A study of shifting gender and identity Nawa’s senior college thesis has become an e-book by popular demand. In her fourth and final year at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., Nawa had [...]
Afghanistan, Inc.
A CorpWatch Investigative Report Contractors in Afghanistan are making big money for bad work A highway that begins crumbling before it is finished. A school with a collapsed roof. A clinic with faulty plumbing. [...]
Women for Afghan Women
Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future This anthology was published two decades ago, but it’s more relevant now that the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan. It’s a collaborative attempt to write history, to [...]
The American Way
Stories of Invasion Following the US’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the scenes of chaos at Kabul Airport, we could be forgiven for thinking we’re experiencing an ‘end of empire’ moment, that the US is [...]
Under the Drones
Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples [...]
Opium Nation
Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart. while revisiting her own family’s deep roots to the land. Fariba Nawa delivers [...]
Christian Science Monitor
In Turkey, authoritarian president faces burgeoning protests By Fariba Nawa Special contributor March 30, 2025, 2:24 p.m. ET|Istanbul As hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered Saturday in Istanbul for the largest demonstration against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [...]
The World
A rapper finds peace and a channel for his activism through hip-hop and Islam Brother Ali hit fame for his hard-hitting critique of racism and inequality in the US. His rap songs mix the political [...]
On Spec Podcast Newsletter
A whistleblower came to me If you ask me what type of travel I like the most, I’d tell you it’s being in the field with my tools of interrogation – at least that’s what [...]
