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Stories of Invasion

By |2025-10-20T09:54:32+00:00October 15th, 2025|Books|

The American Way: Stories of Invasion (History-into-Fiction) 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’ [...]

Under the Drones

By |2025-10-20T09:53:13+00:00October 15th, 2025|Books|

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 [...]

Opium Nation

By |2025-10-20T09:52:48+00:00October 14th, 2025|Books|

Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan “Nawa deftly sketches the geopolitical nightmare that is today’s Afghanistan, but the book’s real strength is her detailed, sensitive reporting of individual [...]

Christian Science Monitor

By |2025-10-12T08:53:14+00:00October 8th, 2025|Text Articles|

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 Verge

By |2025-10-21T13:17:54+00:00October 8th, 2025|Text Articles|

The wild plots of Iranian dissident hunters When Iranian soldiers defect, they often try to hide nearby in Turkey. But the regime attempts to track them down using a vast surveillance dragnet and local [...]

The World

By |2025-10-12T08:55:12+00:00October 8th, 2025|Radio|

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

By |2025-10-08T10:04:09+00:00October 8th, 2025|Journalism|

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 [...]

Why the Taliban Is Still My Enemy

By |2025-10-08T07:16:14+00:00December 22nd, 2011|The Daily Beast|

Whatever Joe Biden says, for the women who were beaten, forced to quit school, and bartered in marriage, and civilians who were deprived of freedom, the extremist group remains a threat to humanity and progress, [...]

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