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- "After we arrived in Kabul, we were stunned by its complexity, its expanse, its size. We didn’t know where to go. Everything was strange to us and of course, we were strange to the local people." bit.ly/3kPqxTK #Afghanistan
- Today, as AAN publishes the 'Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography 2019'. Compiler, @ChristianBleuer gives some top tips on researching Afghanistan and reveals what topics are understudied. aan.af/2I8mnAS
- Unlike the Soviet Union which spent 3 years preparing the Afghan, the US spent its final years strengthening its enemy and weakening its ally. A new AAN report looks at the agreement that facilitated the fall of the government of Afghanistan.
- Dress codes may seem less consequential than other restrictions on work, travel and education, but the Taleban's hijab order telling women to cover their faces seems symbolic of a desire to turn #Afghan women into invisible, private citizens again.
- "Kabul is a city of secrets. An outsider needs both curiosity and patience to discover the hidden layers that lie behind mud walls..." Our two-part series 'long read' on the last exiled Amir of Bukhara and the sites he left behind aan.af/2AgCvLU aan.af/2RaDBm4
- #AsmaJahangi remembered for supporting accountability for war crimes in #Afghanistan, an early advocate of @AfghanistanIHRC. aan.af/2EXcrH5
- The wonderful chair of AAN's Advisory Board, Francesc Vendrell, has died. Envoy for the UN 2000-01 and EU 2002-08, Francesc was far-sighted and practical, a seeker of peace and defender of human rights. We were proud to be associated with him and mourn his loss. Obituary to come.
- Accounts of Ghani’s final weeks in Kabul are reminiscent of the last days of the last shah of Iran. Locked in a disaster of his own making, Ghani was out of touch with reality, and indecisive, says AAN's Kate Clark.
- The rapid fall of so many provincial capitals came as a surprise. But if the government and the US were unprepared, the Taleban were not. A new AAN report examines the Taleban’s drive to take control of Afghanistan. aan.af/3iL3w0I
- Many of the Taleban government’s newly appointed officials are on US and/or UN sanctions list, two of them have an FBI bounty on their heads. This, says AAN’s Martine van Bijlert, complicates the new government’s chances of receiving international aid.
- “The Mughals in India, the Ottomans in Istanbul and the Safavids in Iran regarded Herat as the model of perfection." AAN's @KateClark66 looks at a new exhibition of #miniatures. aan.af/2j9eiOU
- check out our new website @AANafgh, the heart of our work: a fresher, easier-to-use experience, a better search function, a meticulously catalogued archive, a building up resources section. the @AANdaripashto section will follow in a few weeks. go to: afghanistan-analysts.org/en/
