Blogging Heads has a session on the state of the Afghan refugees.
At what point does a refugee stop being a refugee? A whole generation of Afghans have lived their entire lives in Pakistan or Iran (neither of whome, if I understand correctly, grant citizenship to Afghans; nor have ever put a mechanism or what have [...]
The state of the Afghan refugees
“Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards”
This review is drawn up in response to Josh’s call for a bibliography on gender issues in Afghanistan. It concerns Qajar era Iran; however, there is much that Afghanistan shares with Iran. As a historian has once remarked attempting to understand the region without paying heed to Iran is equivalent to ignoring New York and [...]
