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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...

...Noah Arjomand In this essay, the libraries of Kabul serve as a microcosm of the international “capacity-building” project in Afghanistan. Visions of modern and digital library systems have run into the realities of donors interested in quick “success stories” more than programs that work long-term...

... production in the public sphere, is especially rich. We lead off with two beautifully illustrated Forum essays, by Vicki Mayer and Noah Arjomand, that explore everyday life in two cities still undergoing fraught recoveries from Hurricane Katrina and the war in Afghanistan, respectively. In “Signs of Home...

... as the “phantom enemy,” a “ghost nation.”8 In late 2002 Western news agencies were abuzz with reports of an al Qaeda “ ‘phan- tom’ ship” cruising the Mediterranean.9 Time magazine described insurgents in Afghanistan as “phantom...

... Laarh was a village in district Barmal in Afghanistan, so I wondered if this man was confusing that Barmal with this Birmal, a district in South Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, but he rattled off other details that corroborated what Mir Azad had told me. I have my theories about...

... in the narrative of the film in terms of Sonita’s human rights is the arrival of her mother in Tehran. She has come from Afghanistan to insist that Sonita return with her so that she can be “sold” for $9,000 to a much older man who will provide a dowry that will, in turn, enable her brother to pay for a bride...

..., the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) in Algeria. Yet it was not until the end of the 1970s that the globalization of Wahhabism truly hit its stride; indeed, 1979 was the year of the Khomeinist revolution in Iran as well as the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops. Confronted with the two...

..., who was then on the run in the mountains of Afghanistan. The al-Qaeda chief’s pronouncements were major news stories at the time and often ran on the front page. Most speakers of Arabic, native or not, critics as well as sympathizers, agree that bin Laden was an eloquent speaker. Bernard Lewis (1998...

...: Understanding PTSD among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Foucault Michel . 1990 [1978] . An Introduction. Vol. 1 of The History of Sexuality , translated by Hurley Robert . New York : Vintage . Foucault Michel . 2003 [1976] . “Society...

... This commentary strikes me as intuitively correct and is a disturbing and bleak observation about the capacity of the American public for self-deception, more particularly, its incapacity to confront the truth claims it is presented with regard- ing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet this observation begs...

.... But as the golfing fiasco suggests, beyond good and evil, or coiled within its heart like a worm, is another rhetoric of governance that surely preceded the smol- dering landscapes of New York, Afghanistan, Iraq, London, and Madrid but as surely has...

... underway). However, starting in the 2000s, disappeared and disappearance stepped out of their original territories and traveled to faraway places: Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Serbia, Afghanistan, Guantanamo. Wherever you turn, 1 there they are ( Amnesty International 2014 ). What brought about...

... Islamists and conservative media, these measures were quite soft when compared with the puritan policies of self-declared Islamist states such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iran. Saudi Arabia’s state control of leisure and diversion...

... Afghanistan: Ter- rorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building. Durham, N.C.: Duke Uni­ versity Press. Jay, Martin. 2011. Essays from the Edge: Parerga and Paralipomena. Charlottes­ ville: University of Virginia Press. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 233...

... on the war on terror? If these billions had been spent on us, on basic education, on food, then we would love the Americans. The Americans are not getting benefit from Iraq or Afghanistan. Hatred will not bring you any positive results — hatred...

... and services to independent media artists in the Delaware Valley. The Folklife Center of International House presents 12 concerts of traditional and world music annually. This year these concerts will range from Afghanistan’s Nashenas to Ladysmith...

...Shamus Khan 2017 Our issue opens with a concern that will run through my editorship of Public Culture : violence. (We will devote a special issue to the topic in 2017.) Madiha Tahir brings us to Barmal, a district in Afghanistan’s Paktika Province bordering Pakistan’s Tribal Areas. While...

... in Afghanistan. The Muslim — ­and by implication non-­European (or nonwhite) — ­woman is, in this imaginary, at once the victim and agent of a fun- damentalist and terrorist Islam. In this dual role, she twice underwrites efforts to secure national — ­and European — ­boundaries because she is supposed...

... violence. It might be fair to give this the dyslexic moniker “unclear war,” for it is neither truly war nor truly peace. Rather, it is Janus-faced, an embodiment of both. In one major regard, this is reminiscent of the Cold War in its juxtaposition of “hot” battles, such as those in Afghanistan...

... for deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. With security clearance to access various military sites across the United States, most notably the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Califor- nia, Beckett has been privy to the simulation techniques and role-play exercises used to prepare troops...