On the Way

It would have been better if Radio Azaid, the Afghanistan Service, had been renamed Radio of Pashtuns. Radio Azadi, which means a free radio...

On January 20, 2015, Radio Azadi, the Afghanistan Service, purposefully published a parnicious video report from Herat, located in western ...

In my previous post , I wrote about theft at Radio Azadi. Here’s an example: The RFE/RL Afghanistan bureau in Kabul had just moved from the ...

When Kari Lake was nominated as a special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media, some media outlets reported that Trump had a...

This morning, I was walking along a winding path through the university campus until I reached the bottom of the hill. From there, I followe...

Photo source: x/twitter One of the questions that has preoccupied the minds of contemporary Hazaras is: Who are we, and where do we come fro...

I found this following refugee poem by chance. It is by an Afghanistani poet, Raziq Faani, and I thought I would regret it later if I did no...

If you are in the Washington D.C. area, you should definitely consider attending this remarkable event: " Hazara Women of Afghanistan S...

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...