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 to [...]
Contractors in Afghanistan are making big money for bad workA highway that begins crumbling before it is finished. A school with a collapsed roof. A clinic with faulty plumbing. A farmers’ cooperative that farmers can’t [...]
Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the FutureThis 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 [...]
The American Way: Stories of InvasionFollowing 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 [...]
Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan BorderlandsIn 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, [...]
Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan “It took me seven years to research and write Opium Nation – it’s both reportage and memoir – and the most enduring achievement [...]
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