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...Fatima Mojaddedi; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the violent world of translation in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the provinces referred to in the general idiom of “the countryside” by Afghan translators who encounter rural subjects as part of an international...

... to. He told me proudly that he had at most ten Iranian books in his whole library and not many more from America. This chameleonlike ideological flexibility was something that I found in many Afghans as I learned their backstories, a survival strategy developed over three decades of more or less...

... forefathers’ time, but his bureaucratic documents including his citizenship papers, his kinship and tribal affiliations, as well as the orientation of his political demands connect to Pakistan. In 1893 the agreement with the emir of Afghanistan to establish a boundary between the Afghan and British spheres...

... and delicate art of modulating verbal and corporeal cues, Fatima Mojaddedi’s finely wrought ethnographic account of the experiences of one Afghan translator, Matin, illuminates how war can “make strange the familiar.” Matin, who translates for American forces as they occupy and patrol various parts of his...

... are correct, the U.S. chain of command is increasingly evangelical, with God as its ultimate commander in chief.)37 For still others, an increasingly disillusioned group, the sacrifice was for Iraqis and Afghans themselves. They enlisted...

... have never helped those crazy ‘fundies’ [the Afghan mujahideen]. Now that they have come to their senses, we can certainly use all the help they can provide with their guns and money” (Ahmed Omar, in an interview conducted and translated...

... prizes, the docudrama In This World (dir. Michael Winter- bottom; 2002) tells the story of the epic journey of two young Afghans trying to reach Britain across Asia and Europe. The movie begins in the Shamshatoo refugee camp in northeastern Pakistan, where fifty-­three thousand Afghans, who fled...

... by Afghan leaders. New York Times , 5 December, B2 . Grotius, Hugo. [1625] 1901 . The rights of war and peace, including the law of nature and of nations . London: D. W. Brown. Hall, Stuart. 1983 . The problem of ideology: Marxism without guarantees. In Marx, a hundred years on ,edited by Betty...

... from Afghans, hatred from Iraqis, hatred from Pakistanis.”1 Abdul Rashid Ghazi, in the frequent interviews he gave to the press by way of his mobile phone even as Pakistani soldiers stormed the Red Mosque and killed his mother, spoke...

... on the state as a migrant without papers, and the head teacher of Sonita’s school in Tehran (which is run by an NGO to help working and street children) cannot help her. She does not have the funds to buy Sonita from her mother, who anyway insists that it is “Afghan tradition” that she must marry. In the film...

... of war. They promote compassion as a commensu- rate response to this moment but also gloss disillusion and any deeper questioning of the meaning or impact of war. In other words, they function to sentimentalize the violence done to Iraqi and Afghan civilians by US forces, reassuring Ameri- can...

... challenges posed by atheist imperialism and Shiite proselytism, the Wahhabis attempted, respectively, to train fighters in the Afghan resistance and to counter revolutionary Islamism in Iran by opposing it with a Sunni asceticism and fanaticism of equal intensity. Thanks to the aid lav- ished on them...

... 16. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcJE0xo24OM . Olszewska, Zuzanna. 2007 . “A desolate voice”: Poetry and identity among young Afghan refugees in Iran. Iranian Studies 40 : 203 –24. Parsa, Misagh. 1989 . Social origins of the Iranian revolution . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press...

..., sculpture, not to mention dancing, acting, public jubilance, the expression of beauty, and attention to the self were harshly suppressed. Women were forced to wear the burkha and men to grow long beards. Thus when in November 2001 the Afghan...

.... Barack Obama may not have managed to clean out the prisons at Guantánamo (yet). The Afghan war remains a major problem. Yet even here, the problem seems to be more about how to finish getting out. At the very least, it is safe to say that the politics of fear, that doomed project of national...

... the expansion and contraction of Afghan poppy fields, or who stumble on a meticulous Chicago gang leader who masters the art of accounting (Levitt and Venkatesh 2000), suggest creative exceptions; yet when dealing with human trafficking most experts agree that the production of statistics faces major...

... and Afghans were situated as “second-tier refugees” destined to wait longer and receive less humanitarian assistance than their Syrian counterparts ( Domokos and Kingsley 2015) . By late 2015, Western and Eastern European states were deporting asylum seekers who were neither from Syria nor from Iraq...

..., in a way it no longer does in American society at large. Sexual politics now appears like a distraction from more serious issues — and certainly not the other way around. Today, who would think that bombing Afghan- istan in the hope...

... on the compositions in the data stock itself. Instead of being fixed—for example, “recheck all Afghan visas”—this produces what Amoore calls a mobile norm that is constantly redrawn as the stock of data changes. The same algorithm, based on the same scenario, may produce one risk assessment at moment t while...

...- 12. David Lazarus, “CalPERS, Carlyle Profit from Afghan War,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 December 2001, B1. 13. United Press International, Kentucky News Briefs, 7 October 1987. 14. Kurt Eichenwald, “Bin Laden Family Liquidates Holdings with Carlyle Group,” New York Times, 26 October 2001, C6...