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A recent new book by the Dutch journalist Bette Dam, and its English summary published as “The Secret Life of Mullah Omar” by the Zomia Center, maintain that Mullah Omar, the erstwhile leader of the Afghan Taliban, lived in a small village in Afghanistan after the American invasion of late
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Kidnappings by terrorist groups are on the rise globally. The chances of surviving this ordeal vary greatly according to the nationality of the victim. This is particularly true for aid workers, one of the groups worst hit by this plague. Two journalists – an Italian and an Afghan – were abducted in
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Happy New Year of the Horse! Given my interest for Afghanistan I thought it fitting to celebrate the new Chinese year of the horse with these portraits of Afghan steeds, painted for the Qing emperor by the milanese Jesuit missionary artist Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shinin in pinyin) in the 18th
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What do we mean by saying – as in a recent European Parliament resolution – that the international strategy in Afghanistan has failed? Old dictionaries have interesting suggestions about fraud and self-deception. * * * A cultural association in Bologna asked me recently to participate to an event about Afghanistan. They would screen the documentary
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Concept developed for IPSO (International Psychosocial Organization) and presented at the workshop “Afghanistan: women against oblivion and impunity” organized by ASDHA (Associació per als Drets Humans a l’Afganistan) in Barcelona, 28 January 2010. * * * IPSO is relatively new humanitarian organisation, founded in 2008 by Inge Missmahl, (dipl. analytical psychologist). IPSO