Review of Ahmed Rashid’s “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia”
As the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2021 after two decades of fighting the Afghan Taliban following the 2001 invasion, it ironically enabled the same Islamist group to regain control of the country. The Taliban has since doubled down on re-implementing its ideological project in the country. The endurance of this group,…
Russia-Taliban Relations: A Strategic Embrace or a Risky Gamble?
On July 3rd, Russia announced its decision to formally recognise the Afghan Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) regime as the country’s legitimate government. This marks a significant event nearly four years after the Taliban returned to power, coinciding with the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August 2021. For the Taliban’s…
The Forgetting of Being: Ibtisam Azem and the Lived World of Palestine
In his seminal non-fiction The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera highlights Edmund Husserl’s expounding of ‘Crisis of European Humanity’, holding that it was for the first time in Human History that people apprehended the world as a “whole”. To Husserl, a distinguished philosopher and founder of the school of phenomenology, the advent of the…
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