Tag Archives: Afghanistan
Women and War Festival: A First Look
The Women and War Festival will be held in London for the month of July, opening on July 4th. Here’s a look at some of its featured events: July 22nd of the festival is ‘Afghanistan Day’. At 3.00pm, an actor will read an extract from Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe. Following this, there will be an…
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Afghanistan: A Nation of Storytellers
Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe reviewed by author and journalist Ahmed Rashid Books on the continuing tragedy in Afghanistan continue to be published but how many are actually now being read is questionable. With the chaos in the Middle East, the refugee crisis in Europe and the rise of the Islamic State, Afghanistan has disappeared…
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The Land Where History Repeats Itself as Tragedy
First published in the March 2016 issue of Standpoint. Also published in the 28 February 2016 issue of the Moby Media Group eNewsletter. As Nato forces leave and Isis gains ground, Afghanistan continues to fascinate, inspire and dismay the West. We ignore it at our peril. …
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Afghanistan in the balance
This article about our fascination with Afghanistan was published by Mantraya, on 23 February 2016. Afghanistan may no longer command the front page but somehow our fascination with the country is like an addiction to heroin, and we keep going back for one last hit. In London, I went to a play called Pink Mist…
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‘Dispatches’ reviewed by Board Member of Civil Vision International
Schuyler K. Geller, Principal Consultant at The Copperridge Group and Board Member of Civil Vision International, has published this wonderful review of Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe: I have just finished reading your book. Much stirring of memories suppressed of so many Afghans left behind, the mission impossible we were given, so many, many failures paraded by…
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Mental Health in Afghanistan
Published by The Big Issue, 23 January 2009 Mental health remains the orphan child of public health, and even more so in fragile states where health care systems are often non- existent or barely functioning. Psychosis and depression are still stigmatised, and governments of fragile states are often as weak as the whole country. Download this…
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