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Tag: Afghanistan

15 December, 2022 • Tishani Doshi

Three Poems by Tishani Doshi

Madras, Indian-born poet, writer, and dancer Tishani Doshi presents three of her latest poems.

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24 October, 2022 • I. Rida Mahmood

Fragile Freedom, Fragile States in the Muslim World

I. Rida Mahmood observes that while people in Iran and Arab countries are roiling for more equality and freedom, they are not taking any cues from the west.

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20 June, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

World Refugee Day — What We Owe Each Other

World Refugee Day is the first of seven days during which refugees will be recognized in events across the world.

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24 February, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

“There’s Nothing Worse Than War”

Letter from the Editor: Russia’s Attack on Ukraine seen from European and Middle Eastern Vantage Points

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15 January, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

Refuge, or the Inherent Dignity of Every Human Being

TMR's editor reflects on the experience of seeking home and refuge.

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15 January, 2022 • Iason Athanasiadis

Children in Search of Refuge: a Photographic Essay

Photographer, documentarian and journalist Iason Athanasiadis shares images from more than 10 years of reporting from Afghanistan to Greece and back.

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15 January, 2022 • Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Salar Abdoh

Refugees of Afghanistan in Iran: a Photo Essay by Peyman Hooshmandzadeh

In Iran, Afghan refugees have been a part our everyday lives for over four decades now.

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13 December, 2021 • Ángeles Espinosa

The (Afghan) Writer Who Sold His Book Collection to Pay the Rent

Selling off your beloved book collection to pay the rent hurts, but it beats starving or being out on the street.

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1 November, 2021 • Iason Athanasiadis

Refugees Detained in Thessonaliki’s Diavata Camp Await Asylum

In which our columnist flies up to Thessaloniki and visits the Diavata camp for refugees seeking European asylum — no one is illegal, everyone merits a better life.

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15 October, 2021 • Sarah Mirk

Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison

Excerpt from Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison A graphic novel, edited by Sarah Mirk, with an introduction by Omar El Akkad Abrams ComicArts (June 2020)… Continue reading Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison

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15 September, 2021 • Omar El Akkad

Attack the Empire and the Empire Strikes Back: What 20 Years of American Imperialism Has Wrought

Omar El Akkad, author of American War and What Strange Paradise, looks at 20 years of blowback.

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15 September, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

20 Years Ago This Month, 9/11 at Souk Ukaz

Hadani Ditmars The commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 unfolds in televisual real time and yet with a strange sense of suspended animation, as if we’re on a slow… Continue reading 20 Years Ago This Month, 9/11 at Souk Ukaz

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16 August, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

Afghanistan Falls to the Taliban

On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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15 August, 2021 • Sherine Hamdy

Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern women’s political cartooning.

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10 November, 2015 • Jordan Elgrably

Tamim Ansary’s Afghan-American Story

The story of an Afghan who became an American in the age of Haight-Ashbury.

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