And their allies in the Pakistani security establishment are continuing to press their same goals; namely, seeking influence in Afghan politics to give Islamabad a stronger position against India.
This is a zombie narrative. The claim is that Afghanistan was never going to change, so the whole American project there was — by no fault of our own — impossible. Going beyond such uninformed, dehumanizing and racist metaphors, more recent scholarship, including by a number of outstanding young Afghan scholars, has brought to light cultural and intellectual currents that are cosmopolitan, subversive, feminist and secular, among other directions.
The Afghan past is far from monolithic or static. The pluralism, dynamism and cosmopolitanism that we can identify at key moments in the Afghan past are all resources that Afghan men and women can draw on today in shaping a political future that may help them realize their aspirations for a more just and peaceful society. How do you teach the war in Afghanistan to your students, many of whom have lived their entire lives with the U.
I encourage them to question the dominant narratives about Afghanistan. Afghan lives are connected in innumerable ways with our own.
We share a common, intertwined history. And because there are so many brilliant Afghan artists, writers, musicians and thinkers, we draw on art, literature and film to try to understand the humanity that we share with them. A Stanford study at a California prison found that although there were more breakthrough COVID infections than before the emergence of the delta variant, vaccinated prison residents had few symptomatic cases. New research on the ways fake news spreads via social media refines conventional wisdom and offers potential solutions to a vexing problem.
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Stanford forecast. Events Events calendar. One of the most notable recent cases of extreme violence against women occurred in when a woman called Farkhunda Malikzada was attacked by a mob and eventually killed while police stood by and did nothing. The incident occurred after Farkhunda, a religious teacher, called out a mullah for selling amulets outside the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque.
Trying to deflect the blame, the mullah falsely accused her of burning the Quran, leading to a crowd of radicals emerging and lynching the innocent Farkhunda. The death sentences of those who were responsible for her murder were revoked, while the police officers who failed to protect Farkhunda only received one year in prison.
This photo shows a local woman wearing a burqa as she leads her two young children through the streets of Kabul. The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is the direct cause of tragic scenes like this. Not only do bombings and other attacks result in the death of innocent civilians and bystanders, but they also cause hardships for those who survive. These boys are seen collecting their bread, which is their only source of food and income, in their bakery that was destroyed by a bombing. The photo shows the perilous conditions that children often have to face through no fault of their own.
Although it is compulsory for children to receive nine years of education in Afghanistan, this is rarely the case. It is estimated that 3. Skip to header Skip to main content Skip to footer. Behind the scenes.
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