On the Way

On Highway 5 South, I was returning from San Jose. I stopped at a rest stop, which has now become a habit, I can't and shouldn't mis...

No one comes short regarding the prejudice and dehumanization of the Hazara people in Afghanistan. Since the takeover of Afghanistan by the ...

In the midst of the ongoing violence against women in Afghanistan by the Taliban, an article by Ali Abdi, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology ...

Not long ago, I walked here with a young novelist who I befriended recently. Since then, I have been coming every once in a while, especiall...

Some terrible news come from Afghanistan. In the past two days, the Taliban militants waged an attack on Balkhab, a Hazara district in north...

It's sad, extremely sad to see what is happening to women in Afghanistan. Nothing has changed in the Taliban's strategies and views ...

Personally, I am less worried about the recent Taliban's restrictions on women appearing on TV or in public in that matter. What makes m...

I am personally against the transfer of the former Afghanistan's government reserves ($7 billion) to the Taliban, for two reasons: 1) T...

In early September of 2021, AP reported that there were potentially young girls among evacuees who were forced to marry older men to escape ...

I posted this on a Facebook group that helps Afghanistani refugees. I'm reposting it here: A lot of us are dealing *Afghanistani refugee...

In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a lot of Afghanistanis* fled to Pakistan. Among the them were the Hazaras who escape...

Today, while hiking, I met an Ukrainian refugee or immigrant (whatever those categories mean to policy makers). We spoke of plants, birds, m...

Refugees sleeping on the sidewalk in Indonesia (Photo source: social media) What is going on in Indonesia? It has become an inferno for thou...

In response to my previous blog post about the crises at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington DC, I received the following e-mail from the...

Afghanistan's flag flutters outside the Afghanistan embassy in Washington, DC. (Photo  Source ) The collapse of Afghanistan's govern...

Now that the Taliban have taken control of everything, privacy and safety on the web is more important than ever. This is especially importa...

One of the convincing and yet stereotype narratives of war on terror in Afghanistan has been linked with liberation of women. Afghan women h...

I was talking to a forlorn friend of mine the other day who talked sadly about her country, a place she called home. I totally understood he...

What did the US do in Afghanistan in the past 20 years? It depends on who asks and who answers but as we all know that our understanding of ...

I don't know how credible this news that the USCIS is about to deny most Afghan humanitarian paroles cases is but it sounds pretty outra...

There is some sporadic news coming out of western part of Afghanistan that the Taliban militants have clashed with the Iranian soldiers on ...

The Taliban are constantly bombarding people with propaganda through all sort of media, most effectively through the Internet because they k...

They came, yes, the Taliban came at last, the vampires to drink the human blood, they are still thirsty though they have spilled too much bl...

if you have ever wondered what would racial profiling or racial scapegoating look like, here is a classic example : Texas Gov. Greg Abbott o...

Yesterday, I went on a hike on nearby hills lavishly covered by sagebrush, a familiar shrub with great memories of my childhood. In the Haza...