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Salon.com
December 12, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Ready for her close-up A doctor, educator, human rights activist and mother, Habiba Sarabi longs for a chance to work -- legally -- back home in Afghanistan...   |
Salon.com
December 5, 2001
Janelle Brown |
A chance to shine Afghan women delegates in Brussels prepare for a role in government, and react variously to a French belly dancer in a spangled bra... |
Salon.com
October 19, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected... |
Salon.com
October 2, 2001
Janelle Brown |
The Taliban's bravest opponents An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells her story... |
Salon.com
December 3, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Any day now Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government... |
Salon.com
November 16, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Beneath the Veil" redux Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War"... |
Salon.com
December 13, 2001
Janelle Brown |
An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women... |
Salon.com
December 6, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Putting the world on notice Delegates to the Afghan Women's Summit, deftly maneuvering past their differences, issue an ambitious agenda for inclusion in their nation's future... |
Salon.com
December 17, 2001
Tamim Ansary |
Leaping to conclusions Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future... |
ifeminists
July 10, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Arm the Afghan women Give an Afghan woman the right to own a gun and you protect her long after the current tragedy has become old news. A gun in the hand of a mother who is protecting her child may be the most humanitarian relief of all. |
Salon.com
September 19, 2001
Laura Miller |
The "enemy" we barely know A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.... |
Salon.com
September 22, 2001
Sean Kenny |
Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here... |
Salon.com
September 27, 2001
Steve Kettmann |
Creating "many, many Osamas" Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them... |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Manjeet Kripalani |
Operation: Stability in Afghanistan The country is making steady progress, but it's facing huge challenges in getting ready for free elections next June. |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2006
Mary McIntosh |
Along the Khyber Pass Driving down the land route between Pakistan and India evokes a deep sense of the history that this pass has seen. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2001
Asra Q. Nomani |
At home with the Taliban While U.S. bombs dropped on his country, an Afghan official and his two wives welcomed me into their living room and talked of marriage, music and his memories of dining in the World Trade Center's starry restaurant... |
Smithsonian
September 2007
Joshua Hammer |
Undaunted First Rory Stewart walked the breadth of Afghanistan. Then he took up a real challenge: restoring traditional architecture in Kabul. When Stewart is not overseeing his foundation, he is on the road wooing skeptics. |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity? American policy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, or so it appears. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested in May 2003 that the war on terror in Afghanistan was in "cleanup" or "mop up" phase. |
Geotimes
October 2004
John F. Shroder Jr. |
Afghanistan Redux: Better Late Than Never Efforts by USGS to study the resources of Afghanistan that are necessary to help boost its economy have been far from straightforward since September 11, but at last are now under way. |
Outside
December 2003
Patrick Symmes |
The Kabul Express In the sixties and seventies it was the hippie trail that brought foreigners to Afghanistan. Two decades of war and terror later, Kabul is a nonstop rave of C-130s, NGOs, soldiers, and spooky nation-builders. The freaks are back on Chicken Street -- where everything old is new again. |
Salon.com
September 22, 2001
Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign... |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment The situation in Afghanistan has progressed to the point where guarded optimism is justified. Unfortunately, the perception of the situation on the ground has become distorted through the prism of American partisan politics. |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Kristin Ohlson |
The New World The opportunities in Afghanistan are once-in-a-lifetime. |
Popular Mechanics
May 12, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
What the Firing of 4-Star Gen. McKiernan Means for Afghan War: Analysis What is the strategy in Afghanistan? |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
April Rabkin |
Transforming Sustainable Energy in Afghanistan In Afghanistan, living off the grid isn't a tree hugger's dream -- it's reality. but a renewable-power startup called Sustainable Energy Services Afghanistan is lighting up Afghans' lives, with help from the sun and the wind. |
Real Travel Adventures
July 2006
Brent Lewin |
`Spandi' In Kabul, children in desperate need of money sell smoke from an herb to ward off evil spirits. |
TIME Asia
June 14, 2010
Tim McGirk |
Armed Farces The U.S. has spent $26 billion building up the Afghan army. But it is still poorly trained and rife with internal rivalries. Will it ever be fit to fight? |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
Jason Kelly |
Afghanistan: Land of War and Opportunity Where most people see only deprivation and misery, Paul Brinkley sees potential. With luck, business will agree |
Reason
March 2002
Virginia Postrel |
Free Hand By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: I like that becomes I'm like that... |
TIME Asia
October 25, 2010
Aryn Baker |
Live Aid Risks are an inherent part of doing aid work in a war zone. They should not be taken needlessly. But if an aversion to risk undermines the effectiveness of aid, the sacrifice of all those who have died will be in vain. |
Reason
April 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Shear Anxiety Haircut cops in Kabul rounded up a few dozen of the city's barbers in January, charging them with turning men into Leonardo DiCaprio wannabes. That's a serious matter in Afghanistan, because its extremist religious rulers, the Taliban, regard most foreign haircuts as "anti-Islamic"... |
National Defense
February 2014
Stephen A. Mackey |
Time to Make Key Decisions in Afghanistan As the United States enters its second decade in Afghanistan, it is wise to examine the nation's interests and use them to inform the path ahead. Nations do not have permanent friends and allies, only permanent interests. |
Reason
March 2005
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Idol Hour Here is a pair of idols apparently acting out a forgotten pagan tale of Central Asia. Part of a collection housed in the Kabul Museum, the wooden statues were badly damaged in 2001 on the orders of the Taliban regime. |
Fast Company
E.B. Boyd |
Getting Out Of Afghanistan Leaving Afghanistan has become one of the most difficult operations the U.S. military has ever undertaken. |
Parameters
Spring 2006
Ali A. Jalali |
The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past. |
