..., and retaliatory attacks by different factions of Taliban fighters. Using uncertainty as an analytic and ethnographic concept, this article traces the social life of the rumors, conspiracy theories, and stories that float around this violence. It draws attention to their multiple and often contradictory effects...

...Valentine Moghadam Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia , by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 274 pages, including Index, Notes, appendices The Taliban: War, Religion, and the New Order in Afghanistan , by Peter Marsden. London: Zed Books...

...Meirav Mishali-Ram Afghanistan has been the scene of enduring violent conflict for three decades, yet the sources of its conflict date back to the establishment of the Afghan state in the eighteenth century. The American-led military intervention in October 2001 ended the extremist Taliban rule...

... (TNSM) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Acknowledging the importance of the wider geopolitical environment, I argue that the rise of the TNSM and TTP is a function of the historical salience of Islamic (jihad) idiom in Pashtun society, localized sources of discontent, and historical-structural...

..., a fifteen-year-old girl who was shot in the head by a member of the Tehrik-e-Taliban, a tribal political formation in Pakistan, in 2012. Drawing on literature from the fields of affect studies and transnational feminist scholarship, and grounding myself theoretically in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, I...

... world for a timely, foreign-­facilitated “rescue” of Afghan women following the end of Taliban rule has evanesced amid the bombs, attacks, and ambushes that continue to destabilize many parts of the country. Much attention and concern has...

... conflict Williams: From “Secessionist Rebels” to “Al-Qaeda Shock Brigades” 201 against a historic enemy. to bin Laden’s Afghan-based transnational terrorist The Kremlin’s leaders, however, were increasingly network. In response to the Taliban’s recognition...

... While reflecting on third world revolutionary movements for their insights into social and political thought—and at a time when the US puppet government in Afghanistan fell in a matter of days to the Taliban—I cannot help but be reminded of the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the return...

... fhnsa a enrldb oeopesv eie hni a eni the in been had it than regimes oppressive the more since hand, by one ruled the been On but society. has the literature of Afghanistan Afghanistani widening and modern progress of social overall development the general also the only not indicates ( progress Taliban...

... the at- will not go “unpunished” (20 September), or that the Taliban tacks that the collapse of the Towers was experienced as “will pay a price,”7 he blithely exhibits what Nietzsche de- emasculating, although “humiliating” is the term that the scribes as a primitive form of barter mentality, a mode of press...

...  and in involved military governments of Pakistan in foreign ventures that have   prompted enormous social dislocation at home. In recent years Pakistan has been widely de- nounced as a haven for Islamist extremists, with links to the Taliban or to al- Qaeda. As if by return favor, its civilian government...

... with the iconoclasm of the Taliban, who once infamously blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas on grounds that the world cared more for their preservation than what happens to Muslims. Whether the Taliban were disingenuous in taking the moral high ground for all Muslims or not is beside the point. Their actions forever disturb...

..., for example, among the Taliban of Afghanistan, Is- terms of the inevitability of gender conflict at a time of ten- lamic Jihad of Egypt, or Hamas of Palestine. Although nearly sion between the waning patriarchal order and the emergent all Islamist movements and states advocate or practice vio- feminist...

... Little Willingness to Give Up bin Laden,” .html%20; Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Education of a Holy Warrior,” New York Times, 19 September 2001; Celia W. Dugger, “Indian New York Times Magazine, 25 June 2000, www.nytimes.com/ Town’s Seed Grew into the Taliban’s Code,” New York Times, 23 library/magazine...

...- notion of the clash of civilizations, believes in the Qaeda in Afghanistan and dislodge the Taliban re- interdependence of societies, advocates a proactive gime led to an expanding sphere of U. S.-Iranian dia- approach, and has yielded significant successes.42 Re- logue and cooperation as both parties...

... and the Taliban, including when there is little to distinguish them. While rumors have been theorized as a powerful tool for the subversion of dominant power relations, Maqsood draws attention to their contradictory effects. She shows how conspiracies and rumors provide a language to “criticize the army...

... in the wake of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was, thirty years later, well established in Pakistani madrasas as well as the army, and had infiltrated both militant as well as mainstream Sunni belief. Waves of sectarian violence in Pakistan were fed by cross-border aggression by the Taliban...

... years 1978 and 1992, some centers of literature written in Afghanistan during the rule of the   and culture came under attack from the muja- Taliban. hideen guerrilla factions during their campaign Since the demise of the Taliban, more   against...

... Pashtuns, animating their pervasive mistrust of both the Pakistani army as well as the Taliban. Finally, Radhika Gupta explores the kinds of political subjectivity and critique articulated in protracted experiences of militarization that do not easily fall under the rubric of “occupation.” Her essay...

...) – to be “packaged” invisibility required the substitution of another, so that “the elimination of the Taliban and the carefully constructed space of visibility so that the elimination of the Palestinian Authority” would be attacks on the World Trade Center and the Penta- seen as “two parallel goals.” Outwardly...