Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
The first volume of the migration and the Arab World series dealt primarily with the trends in, consequences of, and policy responses to labor migration in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states since the “oil boom” period of the 1970s. This volume focuses on the countries of the Mashreq (i.e., Egypt and the Levant) as source and destination countries for various migrant groups, dating from the late 19th century up to the present day.
Afghanistan: Where Chaos Is King and Plunder Is Privilege
The “new and improved” tactics of “divide and conquer” are operational both at the vertical and horizontal layers of the government and society in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan 2002-2012: A Decade of Progress and Hope.
Recent media coverage of the Afghan war questions whether we’ve made meaningful progress towards security and an effective Government in that country. Or were the past ten years a lost decade for the Afghans and Coalition partners? This ten-year milestone is a good point in time to pause, check Afghanistan’s progress, and assess where it appears to be headed. With the assistance of over 40 nations, Afghanistan developed its infrastructure and has taken major steps towards self sufficiency.
We are regularly bombarded by news reports and political analysis that reflect certain underlying assumptions about Afghanistan. These assumptions range from claims that Afghanistan was always a backward state ruled by warlords, to assertions that the country was never really a nation at all, and proclamations that Afghanistan is unfit for Western-style democracy and that it is dangerously naïve to think otherwise.
Since the overthrow of King Mohammad Zahir Shah in 1973, Afghanistan has been plagued by war — either war waged among ideologues (Marxists v. nationalists) or war marked by foreign invasion and occupation. The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which began in 1979, lasted a full decade.
