On the Way

I posted this on a Facebook group that helps Afghanistani refugees. I'm reposting it here: A lot of us are dealing *Afghanistani refugee...

In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a lot of Afghanistanis* fled to Pakistan. Among the them were the Hazaras who escape...

Today, while hiking, I met an Ukrainian refugee or immigrant (whatever those categories mean to policy makers). We spoke of plants, birds, m...

Refugees sleeping on the sidewalk in Indonesia (Photo source: social media) What is going on in Indonesia? It has become an inferno for thou...

In response to my previous blog post about the crises at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington DC, I received the following e-mail from the...

Afghanistan's flag flutters outside the Afghanistan embassy in Washington, DC. (Photo  Source ) The collapse of Afghanistan's govern...

Now that the Taliban have taken control of everything, privacy and safety on the web is more important than ever. This is especially importa...

One of the convincing and yet stereotype narratives of war on terror in Afghanistan has been linked with liberation of women. Afghan women h...

I was talking to a forlorn friend of mine the other day who talked sadly about her country, a place she called home. I totally understood he...

What did the US do in Afghanistan in the past 20 years? It depends on who asks and who answers but as we all know that our understanding of ...

I don't know how credible this news that the USCIS is about to deny most Afghan humanitarian paroles cases is but it sounds pretty outra...

There is some sporadic news coming out of western part of Afghanistan that the Taliban militants have clashed with the Iranian soldiers on ...

The Taliban are constantly bombarding people with propaganda through all sort of media, most effectively through the Internet because they k...

They came, yes, the Taliban came at last, the vampires to drink the human blood, they are still thirsty though they have spilled too much bl...

if you have ever wondered what would racial profiling or racial scapegoating look like, here is a classic example : Texas Gov. Greg Abbott o...

Yesterday, I went on a hike on nearby hills lavishly covered by sagebrush, a familiar shrub with great memories of my childhood. In the Haza...

Today, Islamic militants have targeted school children belonging to ethnic Hazara in Dasht-e Barchi, a predominantly Hazara community in we...

I waited long enough to make sure that I'm not among the privileged ones to receive the covid vaccine before those in need. Given my fie...

No wonder why misinformation has become such a serious problem. Here's an example of how conspiracy theories are so alluring that even g...

Fearing of alienating Turkey, for decades US presidents have tried to avoid recognizing the events of 1915-1923 that led to 1.5 million deat...