Sydsvenskan: Mukhtar Wafayee Writes About Humanity's Darkest Sides
Swedish and Farsi/Dari version of the book The original version of the text by Maria Küchen, the Swedish author, about my book was published in Sydsvenskan newspaper in Swedish. Here, I am sharing the English translation of that text. It is painful to read Mukhtar Wafayee’s “This Blood Bears Witness to God's Wrath”, his first novel and the first to be translated into Swedish. The 29-year-old journalist fled to Malmö from Afghanistan three years ago, after enduring constant harassment in his homeland for his journalism. From 2019-2020, he …
Rallying Jihad: Enemy Images in Taliban’s propaganda
In this essay, I will examine the concept of enemy images in the Taliban’s propaganda after they seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021. The Taliban, a powerful extremist military group that calls itself the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” has greatly impacted Afghanistan's society and politics since it emerged in 1994, during the civil war in Afghanistan. The key to their influence in society lies in their leaders' speeches, books, and orders which do more than merely communicate. These leaders strategically create and spread ene…
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