By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports…
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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…
Read the blog post to find out more about writing the newly published book Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 by…
Kharita dispatching On 2 Ramadan 1316 AH/ 15 January 1899, Amir Abdul Rahman Khan of Afghanistan (r. 1880–1901), sent an…
How did Abū Naṣr Yehuda, a Jewish landowner from 11th-century Bāmiyān, conduct his business affairs with his Muslim neighbors? What…
By Marc Abramiuk, archaeologist and applied anthropologist The central Helmand Valley of Afghanistan is the name I use to describe…
As it enters its second year of publication, Warwick Ball reflects on the emerging themes and (accidental) article pairings in…
It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s…