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From Great Game to Grand Bargain Writer: Barnett R. Rubin/Ahmed Rashid 10.11.2008 . The Great Game is no fun anymore. The term "Great Game" was used by nineteenth-century British imperialists to describe the British-Russian struggle for position on the chessboard of Afghanistan and Central Asia -- a contest with a few players, mostly limited to intelligence forays and short wars fought on horseback with rifles, and with those living on the chessboard largely bystanders or victims. Full...(534) │

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Creative Abjection and Sacrifice in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner Writer: Alexandra Bailey 30.06.2008 . Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003) chronicles the story of Amir, the son of a wealthy merchant, living in Afghanistan, and his relationship to Hassan, his servant and friend. My favourite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word that he didn’t know. I’d tease him, expose his ignorance. One time, I was reading him a Mullah Nasrudin story and he stopped me. “What does that word mean?” “Which one?” “‘Imbecile.’” “You don't know what it means?” I said grinning. […] “But it's such a common word! [...] everyone in my school knows what it means [...] Let's see. ‘Imbecile.’ It means smart, intelligent. I'll use it in a sentence for you.   Full...(2973) │

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Combating the Ideology of Suicide Terrorism in Afghanistan Writer: Waliullah Rahmani 5.04.2008 . Finally, in domestic affairs, forming committees with the participation of real Islamic scholars is the only way to prevent Afghan citizens from joining extremist groups. Academic institutions, mosques and the media could be a great help in curbing suicide terrorism. Acting upon such a strategy, the Ministry of Haj and Awqaf could lead the mosques and clerics in the campaign against this violent ideology. Full...(476) │

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Blood borders Writer: Ralph Peters 20.03.2008 . How a better Middle East would look International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war. Full...(417) │

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Identity and Conflict in Afghanistan Writer: Hugh Reeves 4.01.2007 . The most unified these tribes ever become is when fighting a common enemy. The difficulty in finding such a resolution is, in part, due to the lengthy history of conflict. Conflict has become part of the Afghan identity. The best potential solutions for the chronic violence that plagues Afghanistan involve the creation of a unified nation state, a step which Afghans uniformly resist. Perhaps given the course of recent events, Afghanistan can begin rebuilding its tattered country using the blueprints of more unified and central nation states. If this is accomplished, one can only hope that a sense of national community will quell many of the tribal disputes that would otherwise result in violence. Full...(2991) │

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