The Iranian regime suffers from bi-polar disorder when it comes to Afghan refugees. A few years ago they sat about throwing the Afghan refugees out (reasons cited: they take jobs away, they do illegal stuff, they sell drugs–in other words the Afghan refugees were to the Iranians what the Mexicans are to the Republicans in [...]
The Tale of Two Interpreters
At Virginia Quarterly a tale of two Afghan interpreters: We are not Just Refugees.
Considering how much Afghan-Americans get paid for doing the same job (the going rate these days is about $ 200,000) the treatment meted out to these interpreters seems positively shabby.
The state of the Afghan refugees
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 Giant Buddhas”
That the Buddhas in Bamiyan were many things to many people is portrayed very convincingly in this film. Nothing but praise in that regard, but the various threads diverge so wildly across time and space that the window for discussing the events surrounding their destruction and the larger political maneuvering of the Taliban are ignored. [...]
“Afghanistan: History, Issues, Bibliography”
Bearing all the hall-marks of a book hurriedly published in the wake of 9/11, this brave little book introduces Afghan people in the following terms:
Crack British troops were slaughtered by bands of Afghans who reportedly exhibited few, if any, inhibitions towards the extinguishing of human life. They have demonstrated time and time again their utter [...]
