Episode 34 | Sepi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam: The Taliban banned from women working for the UN
In the beginning of April 2023, the Taliban notified the United Nation mission in Afghanistan that Afghan women are no longer permitted to work for the U.N. There are approximately 400 Afghan women wh...
16 Apr 20231h 9min
Episode 33 | Abdul Hai Qanit | The Taliban's diplomatic breakthroughs
A flurry of diplomatic activity over the past months has seen Afghan embassies and consulates in Iran and the UAE handed over to the new Afghan Taliban government. As this diplomatic momentum increa...
3 Apr 202351min
Episode 32 | Jeff Rigsby: an American living in Afghanistan
In this episode of The Afghan Eye podcast, Sangar hosts Jeff Rigsby. Jeff Rigsby was a US military contractor and aid worker during the occupation who is currently living in Afghanistan. Jeff sheds li...
26 Mar 202357min
Episode 31 | Book review: John J. Mearsheimer's The Great Delusion
What is liberalism? What makes liberalism an aggressive ideology that motivates the militarism of Western states? How can dissecting liberalism help us understand the American occupation of Afghanista...
3 Mar 20231h 54min
The Escalating Taliban Bans on Girls' Education in Afghanistan
The Afghan Eye is back! In 2023's first episode, Sangar interviews Ahmed-Waleed on his recent article on the history and legacy of politicised education in Afghanistan. Amidst increasing Taliban rest...
2 Jan 20231h 22min
The Afghan Brief - Episode 4
This episode of The Afghan Brief focuses on the three day long 'Scholar's Conference' gathered by the Taliban in Kabul and its 11-point Declaration. Ahmed-Waleed and Sangar discuss the assembly's Decl...
6 Jul 202216min
Why The West Is Getting Afghanistan Wrong, Again
Who is to blame for the current diplomatic deadlock between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the West? Have the Taliban really changed? Is there such thing as Taliban 2.0? If so, how and why ...
5 Jul 20221h 5min
The Afghan Brief - Episode 3
In the third episode of The Afghan Brief, the latest issue of national significance from Afghanistan is discussed. Sangar and Ahmed-Waleed dissect the convening of a grand assembly of three thousand r...
29 Jun 202216min
