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Drawing on his decades of experience as a diplomat in the Middle East and Afghanistan, Sir William Patey shares his insights, analysis, and stories.
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🎙️ Professor Thomas Barfield shares the story of his five-decade fascination with Afghanistan and his thoughts on its past, present, and future. (Part 1)
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🎙️In the next episode we hear the story of Hussain Rezai, one of thousands of
#refugees
from Afghanistan stuck in limbo in appalling conditions in Indonesia. Many over a decade.
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🎙️ Dr Sima Samar will be talking about her upcoming book, her life and more.
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I am delighted and honoured to be selected as Labour's parliamentary candidate for The Wrekin.
From Taliban captivity and torture as a 12-year-old child to arriving here as a refugee and reaching where I am today, I owe everything I have to this wonderful country. I am
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🎙️ Born a refugee in Iran,
@hrw
's
@FereshtaAbbasi
went on to become a successful lawyer in Afghanistan and received a Chevening scholarship. She shares her remarkable and inspiring story.
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@mjdawar
on the differences between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban.
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🎙️ Our guest in the next episode is
@HeatherBarr1
.
Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at
@hrw
.
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🎙️
@HussainS_Rezaie
so powerfully tells the story of thousands of
#refugees
forgotten and stuck in limbo in Indonesia. Many over a decade.
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#MentalHealth
🎙️ Born in Bamiyan, became a child refugee who struggled to find a school place in Iran to ultimately becoming an award winning journalist in Canada. In the next episode,
@ZahraYusufi
shares her incredible story.
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🎙️Next on
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:
@mjdawar
talks Pakistan, Pashtuns, the Taliban (Afghan and Pakistani), refugees, the Durand line, risking his life, and more.
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🎙️ Recorded a fascinating interview with
@mjdawar
. You’ll have his views on the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, refugees, Pakistan’s policies and more.
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🎙️ In the next episode,
@DrSimaSamar
talks about her upcoming book, Outspoken, her life and politics.
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🎙️
@HeatherBarr1
on holding the Taliban leaders accountable in the ICC and other international bodies.
Heather Barr is associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at
@hrw
.
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🎙️Thousands of
#Refugees
stuck in
#Indonesia
are kept in "open prisons", says
@HussainS_Rezaie
, who has been living in limbo for almost a decade.
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From an impoverished village in Bamiyan to being a child refugee in Iran to leading
@ZanTimes
,
@ZahraYusufi
tells her extraordinary story.
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#TheAfgPod
with
@HeatherBarr1
is out!
Heather Barr as associate director of Women’ Rights Division at
@hrw
.
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🎙️
#TheAfgPod
with Mir Tamim Ansary is out!
The acclaimed Afghan-American author who left Afghanistan in the early 1960s tells his and his family's extraordinary story in this interview.
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🗣️ Dr Sima Samar: “I have three strikes against me. I am a woman, I speak out for women, and I am a Hazara.”
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🎙️ Professor
@llewelyn_morgan
shares the story of Bamiyan, the Buddhas, and more. What's the connection between an ancient Greek king and Da Afghanistan Bank?
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🚨 Next episode: Major General
@Charlie533080
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“Persecution of the Hazaras is the untold story of Afghanistan.”
❗️OUT TOMORROW!❗️
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🧣Sima Samar on being attacked by
@DrabdullahCE
because of her scarf.
“If Afghanistan depends on my scarf, let it go.”
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🎙️
@heatherbarr1
: How dare we give up on Afghan women and girls
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🎙️ Dr Sima Samar recounts the moment her husband, Ghafoor, who was a Kabul University professor, was taken by PDPA agents.
“ He said, don’t look for me.”
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@HeatherBarr1
on the need for women to have full participation in the discussions about women’s rights in Afghanistan.
Heather Barr is associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at
@hrw
.
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👋🏽In the next episode Professor
@llewelyn_morgan
talks about the wonders of Bamiyan, the Buddhas and their history.
📍Out on Saturday!
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🗣️ Mir Tamim Ansary: "When I was growing up in Kabul, when I was a little kid, I would hear jokes being told about Hazaras within the family. They were sort of... ethnic humour that represented somebody as dum. Hazara this or that."
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@Fawziakoofi77
on leaving Afghanistan, life in exile and what keeps her going.
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🎙️
@Shakardokht
on the impacts of losing her 18 months old sister and her own 3 days coma because of measles.
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🎙️ Professor
@llewelyn_morgan
on the Hazara people.
Llewelyn Morgan is a professor of Classics at the University of Oxford and the author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan.
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🏳️🌈
@Artemis_Akbary
shares their extraordinary life story, the stories of the LGBTQ+ community in Afghanistan, and their campaign for equality.
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🎙️The former EU Special Representative for Afghanistan,
@AmbMellbin
, on whether the Taliban are a security threat to the West.
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@HeatherBarr1
on how she experienced 15 August 2021.
Heather Barr is associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at
@hrw
.
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🎙️ The former EU Special Representative for Afghanistan,
@AmbMellbin
, reflects on his time in the country and shares his thoughts.
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😱 Sharing the story of coming face to face with Osama bin Laden in Kandahar in 1999 with
@CraigMWhitlock
.
📝 Craig is a journalist at the
@washingtonpost
and the author of The Afghanistan Papers. Interview out soon.
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on all platforms.
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@FereshtaAbbasi
on refinding herself in Scotland, dealing with past traumas and being among the first students from Afghanistan to study at
@aberdeenuni
.
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🎙️ Professor Thomas Barfield, one of the foremost scholars on Afghanistan, shares the story of his five-decade fascination with the country, and his thoughts on its past, present, and future. (Part 2)
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🗣️ Dr Sima Samar on why she’s started her book with the story of a deadly attack on a school in Dashti e Barchi, Kabul.
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🎙️ Professor
@llewelyn_morgan
puts Bamiyan, the Buddhas and the Hazaras into context.
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@ZahraYusufi
on returning to Afghanistan from Iran to go to school.
I walked to school head held high.
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🎙️Who was the leader who refused to shake hands with
@Fawziakoofi77
?
Clue: Long beard. 😅
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🗣️
@Tobias_Ellwood
vociferously doubles down on his call for engagement with the Taliban.
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A co-founder of
@AANafgh
,
@thruttig
studied Afghanistan at
@HumboldtUni
and worked in Kabul as a GDR diplomat, serving in various roles in the country afterwards. He shares his and the untold story of Germany in Afghanistan.
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🎙️ Habiba Sarabi: We must rely on our own abilities to change Afghanistan
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@mjdawar
on the threats he faces for speaking against the Taliban and the Pakistani government.
“Somebody has to speak… death will come one day.”
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🇦🇫 Professor Thomas Barfield on travelling to Afghanistan for the first time in 1971.
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🗣️ Dr Sima Samar on writing about her personal tragedies.
“It was not easy. And it’s still not easy. I never forget. It doesn’t leave my mind.”
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@FereshtaAbbasi
on what keeps her motivated working for
@hrw
and monitoring human rights violations in Afghanistan.
"The women of Afghanistan are my inspiration."
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🎙️
@AmbMellbin
shares the inside story of brokering the Hekmatyar peace deal.
🤔 Where was he hiding?
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🎙️ Dr
@SarabiHabiba
on being appointed as the governor of Bamiyan, people’s reaction and her work there.
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🎙️
@ZahraYusufi
on her mother begging Iranian schools to let her in.
“My mom was crying after every rejection. Then she was taking me to another school.”
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🎙️
#TheAfgPod
with
@Tobias_Ellwood
is out!
🗣️ An in-depth conversation with the former chair of the British Parliament’s Defence Select Committee, who made a controversial visit to Afghanistan last year.
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🗣️ Mir Tamim Ansary on his childhood in Afghanistan.
The acclaimed Afghan-American author who left Afghanistan in the early 1960s tells his and his family's extraordinary story in this interview.
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🎙️ Dr
@SarabiHabiba
on her student political activism again the Soviet invasion.
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📺 Watch the Refugees in Indonesia episode on YouTube!
🗣️Hussain has been stuck in Indonesia for over a decade. He tells his and his fellow refugees' story.
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🎙️
@FereshtaAbbasi
on the challenges of her work at
@hrw
in trying to keep Afghanistan relevant to the international community.
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🎙️Thomas Barfield: “The Taliban are modernists. They are the twins of the PDPA.”
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🎙️Sima Samar on powerful leaders who wanted her dead:
“Karzai said I cannot protect you.”
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🎙️ Thomas Barfield on the idea of Afghanistan, nationalism, and the historic place of Persian language in the region.
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@HeatherBarr1
on the attitude of some in the West over women’s rights in Afghanistan.
Heather Barr is associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at
@hrw
.
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🎙️
@Levisonwood
: Afghanistan has a special place in my heart.
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🎙️
@jason_c_howk
on what defeat in Afghanistan has done to America.
“We are struggling, as a country, to deal with what happened.”
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@JohnnyMercerUK
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Mr Mercer is the UK’s Minister for Veterans’ Affairs who served three tours in Afghanistan.
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🎙️
@ZahraYusufi
on the Taliban’s impact on the media and her work at
@ZanTimes
.
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Born in a refugee camp in Pakistan,
@BarakPashtana
rose to found
@LEARNAfg
, providing education to thousands of girls and boys in Afghanistan. She tells her extraordinary story.
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@Fawziakoofi77
on her personal grief of losing Afghanistan.
"Sometimes I regret leaving Afghanistan."
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🎙️
@Fawziakoofi77
on taking part in negotiations with the Taliban.
“We lost so much in the war. My nieces and my cousins were killed.”
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@FereshtaAbbasi
on losing her friend,
@say_samim
, and surviving attacks in Kabul.
"I don't think I can live that life again."
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🎙️Indonesia is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention and grants no help or rights to the people stuck there.
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🎙️
@FereshtaAbbasi
on staying hopeful, being a woman fighting for human rights and the impacts of social media abuse.
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🎙️ رهبران آمریکا چرا در باره جنگ افغانستان دروغ می گفتند؟
📝 کریگ ویتلاک خبرنگار تحقیقی در روزنامه واشنگتن پُست و نویسنده کتاب «اسناد افغانستان» می باشد.
🗣️
@CraigMWhitlock
on why American leaders kept lying about the Afghan War.
📝 Craig is a journalist at the
@washingtonpost
and the author of The Afghanistan Papers.
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@Artemis_Akbary
on coming out to his parents after a suicide attempt, and their reaction, which made life more difficult.
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@JohnnyMercerUK
: “The Taliban are not worse than I imagined. They’re exactly what I always thought them to be.”
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🎙️
@mjdawar
on the future direction of the Taliban and Pakistan relationship.
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🗣️
@CraigMWhitlock
on why American leaders kept lying about the Afghan War.
📝 Craig is a journalist at the
@washingtonpost
and the author of The Afghanistan Papers.
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🎙️ Dr
@SarabiHabiba
: “My childhood was full of discrimination…I was shy and discouraged.”
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🎙️
@JohnnyMercerUK
: “Afghanistan is deeply intoxicating as a place. It’s an extraordinarily beautiful country. And yet, it’s overlayed with extreme violence.”
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🎙️
@wendychambLD
on what gives her hope about Afghanistan.
“Hope will always survive.”
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🎙️
@StephanAJensen
on how and why Afghan security forces disintegrated.
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🎙️The former EU Special Representative for Afghanistan,
@AmbMellbin
, on his entertaining meeting with Dostum. 😅
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@DavidLoyn
on generational change among anti-Taliban leaders and groups.
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‼️ Next episode:
@StephanAJensen
‼️
🇦🇫 He talks about his time in Faryab and Mazar-i-Sharif,
🇳🇴 Norwegian foreign policy and its unique role as a conflict mediator,
🗣️ And more…
🚨 OUT TOMORROW! 🚨
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@mjdawar
on why Pakistan has begun mass deportation of Afghan refugees.
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