On the Way

Well, Mr. Khalilzad! It's good to hear that you are against bombs. But during the 20 years of US occupation of Afghanistan, you supporte...

Yesterday, I was on my way to the university library when I saw two officers in dark navy blue uniforms standing by the side of the road. Bo...

There are reports coming from inside Iran that the ongoing US-Israeli aggression has resulted in dozens of deaths of Afghan refugees. Due to...

Once on Twitter, I came across a tweet by an Iranian woman that said: "On the way to the Imam Khomeini International Airport, I got out...

 What do we know when they talk about "human shields"?  Here is a cartoon by Kamal Sharaf, a Yemeni cartoonist. It says it all. 

There is a troubling convergence of sentiments s among some Iranians and Afghanistanis when it comes to the overthrow of their respective re...

In the neighborhood where I live, there is an Iranian grocery store and a bakery inside, which I usually go to. The grocery store's owne...

In the past few hours, some emotionally charged Afghanistanis have shown a bit of excitement regarding the Pakistani army's airstrikes o...

These days, some Iranians are dying to see the US attack their country. This morning, I was talking to an Iranian friend, Reza, who told me,...

This is part of the confessions of General Mohammad Nabi Azimi, a high-ranking official in the government of Rabbani and Massoud, as recorde...

Today marks the thirty-third anniversary of the Afshar massacre. On February 11, 1993, a state-sponsored attack under the command of Ahmad S...

"It's a nimrod world,  berar  [brother]," Zahra told me, describing what she has been witnessing: the rise of authoritarianism...

Today I was speaking with Asad, a friend and a long-time interlocutor, someone with whom I often have deep conversations. We were discussing...

photo source  nyt The violence happening in this photograph is not in Iraq and Afghanistan, where it was exported and executed for two decad...

This article in The New York Times by Elian Peltier on Afghanistani music and artists in Pakistan warns that it is in danger of being silen...

Finally, the violence comes home, to where it started and to where it belonged, and from where it was deployed and executed. It's an imp...

It seems no help will be coming from the US or others. The protesters in Iran who have taken to the streets may have realized that returning...

So, here again, the ICE uses the state's banal tools, such as appointment notices/check-ins, to reinforce violence on the most vulnerabl...

This report is extremely shocking and upsetting. Today, Reuters reported that, according to a memo seen by the news agency, the Trump admini...

by Khadim Ali, a Hazara painter,  source For the Hazara people in Afghanistan, life has always been shadowed by a deep-seated dread. To be H...

Amid Afghanistan's contemporary violent history, a different story is capturing hearts and minds, one not of conflict but of celebration...

During the chaotic withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of people stormed the Kabul airport. In a desper...

Yesterday, I saw Amir my newphew's homework. The title of one of his readings was "Needs and Wants." He had answered one of th...

For the past few days, I have not been able to talk to my family members, and like me, thousands of diaspora Afghanistanis have not been abl...

A report dated 10/19/1893 records that Amir Abdul Rahman Khan sold 10,000 captive Hazaras as slaves. September 25 of each year marks the rem...