By Viola Allegranzi Located in present-day Afghanistan, Ghazni was once a prosperous commercial and cultural centre at the crossroads of…
Category: World History
By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports…
By Peter Burke The idea that the unintended consequences of human action are often more important – for better and…
Read the introductory article to our recently released Northern Scotland: Black Lives Matter virtual collection, which can be found on…
By Siân Reynolds When we were preparing this special issue of Nottingham French Studies (59: 2) which I have guest-edited,…
By Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper In 1971 and 1972 Richard Tapper and I lived with Afghan villagers for nearly a year. The…
By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that…
By David Gutman In April 1906, a man appeared at the United States consulate in Sivas, a city located deep…
By Stefan Kamola, author of Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh Early in 1839, Professor of Linguistics…
An interview with Nathaniel Greenberg – author of How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in…