Afghanistan

Afghanistan ( (listen), also pronounced /ævˈɡænᵻstæn, ævˈɡɑːnᵻstɑːn/; Pashto/Dari: افغانستان, Pashto: Afġānistān [avɣɒnisˈtɒn, ab-], Dari: Afġānestān [avɣɒnesˈtɒn]), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast. Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Separated by the world’s longest land border and engaging in over three billion dollars in trade daily, Canada and the United States share security concerns, cultural interests, and a history …

administration’s unilateral decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, criticized in the UK Landler, Mike. 2021. “Biden Rattles UK with Afghanistan Policy.” New York Times, 18 August. https://www nytimes.com/2021/08/18/world/europe/ britain-afghanistan-johnson-biden.html. Leech, Richard. 1977. “Canada


NSP: New Society Publishers · 11 June 2024 English

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …

Square just as the US was beginning to bomb Afghanistan, and marching with over a million people in


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 June 2024

geopolitical outcomes. We can observe these failures in the cases of U.S military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, and Libya in 2011, as well as Russia’s 2022 military intervention in Ukraine


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 24 May 2024 English

Detailing an eventful year that saw the IGF Secretariat deliver several new publications, workshops, and events for its growing membership.

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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2024 English

old as the world changes in small ways and in devastating ones. The shock of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan tear across the globe; the Great Recession steals jobs, savings, and houses; and the politics of


CHB: Coach House Books · 14 May 2024 English

CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for …

little icon of the plane travelling over – 67 –Afghanistan into Pakistan. After some time of rushing through


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is …

Bin Laden found refuge among the Pathans in Afghanistan and Pak- istan) evolves from seeing the stranger with extensive violence, such as the Balkans, Afghanistan, India– Pakistan, Somalia, and other conflict


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this …

generally (meaning the traditions of Iran and Afghanistan). As Ronald Johnson reports, “A popular religious


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be …

Country war poetry by a white, male veteran of the Afghanistan War) – can be read as critical-reflexive works


NSP: New Society Publishers · 7 May 2024 English

Events can educate, inspire, and connect, but all too often they escalate into resource-intensive glorifications of excess and exclusivity. How We Gather Matters provides insight and practical tools to unleash …

time. The team included refugees from Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Syria. For most of them, it was their first-


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