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"Media Persian" by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. Very handy new book out from
vocablists  farsi  from twitter
16 hours ago
JIHAD: Afghanistan's Holy War - Trailer - YouTube
'Jihad' is equally interesting. Although the back story to how filmed is strange.
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3 days ago
BBC iPlayer - Afghanistan: The Great Game - A Personal View by Rory Stewart: Episode 1
if you're in UK, then . if not, use a VPN and watch through that.
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3 days ago
(404) http://t.co/KVST
RT : DG wanted to airstrike poppy fields, seal farmers in wells? Hope he was joking. via ...
Zhari  from twitter
3 days ago
Twitter / strickvl: At SOAS for the launch of
At SOAS for the launch of the new book ‘Shakespeare in Kabul’…
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3 days ago
Interview with Iranian Rapper Najafi about the Fatwa against Him - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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3 days ago
InterLit Foundation | Resources for learning Dari & Pashtu
apparently so.
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5 days ago
ingentaconnect The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ev...
there are some excellent academic works on the relationship between the two. cf
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5 days ago
Afghan Luke Movie Trailer [HD] - YouTube
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6 days ago
Associated Press' photo "The sun was bright in the sky..." on WhoSay
AP photo essay from ANA embed.
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6 days ago
The only two Westerners living on their own in Kandahar reveal what they've learned about the war in Afghanistan | Foreign Policy
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6 days ago
Poetry of the Taliban - review | Books | The Guardian
RT : Taliban poetry. An Oxymoron? Daljit Nagra on a revelatory collection from Afghanistan: via ...
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6 days ago
Untitled (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Kabul-Stephen-Landrigan/dp/1908323086/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337943430&sr=8-1)
and be sure to check out 'shakespeare in kabul'
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7 days ago
“We don’t have mango trees…” - UK in Pakistan
RT : BREAKING. UK diplomat finds that Karachi is a "real city".
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7 days ago
In times of trouble, Lyari General Hospital the safest choice for some – The Express Tribune
RT : In times of trouble, Lyari General Hospital the safest choice for some - my story for
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7 days ago
Russian Bikers Charged with Espionage in Iraq | Russia | RIA Novosti
RT : If you're thinking of doing a motorbike tour thru Iraq, read this:
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8 days ago
Taliban poetry, mourn the dead boy, curse the naked “daughter of the west” | Pakistan: Now or Never?
RT : Piece on the new edited Afghanistan Taliban poetry collection co-edited by :
talibanpoetry  review  UK  blog  reuters  from twitter
8 days ago
Twitter / OxfordWords: Quote of the week: "Ever t
requisite motivational response
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9 days ago
TEDxMogadishu
RT : TEDx Mogadishu. Look beyond narrow prejudices and you will identify brilliant people anywhere. # ...
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9 days ago
(500) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-end-of-fish-in-one-chart/2012/05/19/gIQAgcIBbU_blog.html?td=sm_facebook&utm_campaign=wpapp
RT : The end of fish, in one chart striking map of where we are fishing and overfishing in our oceans.
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9 days ago
Message of peace resonates in Helmand poetry event | ReliefWeb
RT : Message of resonates in event
Helmand  peace  poetry  from twitter
10 days ago
m.guardian.co.uk
RT : 'Afghanistan has poetry in its soul'
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11 days ago
Untitled (http://www.aihrc.org.af/media/files/Reports/Research/English/Report%20on%20Afghan%20Local%20Police%20(Final%20Draft,%20English).pdf)
RT : Afghan Independent Commission on Human Rights report on the Afghan Local Police program (pdf)
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12 days ago
EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN: A SURVEY
?
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13 days ago
Watchlater: iPad App That’s Like Instapaper For Video
already exists. or Squrl both do it.
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14 days ago
Denver's drone near-disaster - drones - Salon.com
RT : military nearly brings down an airliner over Colorado,
Drone  from twitter
14 days ago
BBC News - German baritone singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau dies
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died.
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14 days ago
Sonnets for the Mujahideen | Foreign Policy
RT : The Taliban writes poetry?
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14 days ago
Sonnets for the Mujahideen | Foreign Policy
RT : Sonnets for the Mujahideen | Foreign Policy:
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14 days ago
Untitled (http://www.amazon.co.uk/)
RT : sales rank on 1,123 in Books
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15 days ago
BBC News - Today - Should Taliban poetry be published?
RT : 'Poetry of the Taliban' featured on this morning's Today Programme on Radio 4 ...
talibanpoetry  BBC  radio4  today  UK  felixkuehn  from twitter
15 days ago
BBC's Arabic service pays price of corporation's austerity drive - The National
RT : BBC Arabic is apparently shutting down its Middle East bureaus - Baghdad already, others to follow...
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17 days ago
BBC iPlayer - Night Waves: Taliban Poetry
Listen to BBC Nightwaves programme discussion of (with Faisal Devji) here (starts 29:00)
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18 days ago
Taliban Poetry « Qunfuz
Extended version of review of by Robin Yassin-Kassab
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18 days ago
BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Taliban Poetry
RT : Hear a selection of poems from 'Poetry of the Taliban' on BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves tonight at 10pm
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18 days ago
Taliban poetry: the gentle, flowery side of the story? | World news | The Guardian
RT : poetry: the gentle, flowery side of the story?:
Taliban  from twitter
18 days ago
Poetry | One Tongue, No Tongue: 'Return' and Afghan-Iranian Dialogue - Tehran Bureau | FRONTLINE | PBS
RT : A new translation of Kazemi's iconic poem "Return" and a look at its context and impact. ...
Iran  from twitter
20 days ago
The Taliban, in Their Own Verse - NYTimes.com
RT : The Taliban, in Their Own Verse. A review of "The Poetry of the Taliban" via C.J. Chivers ()
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21 days ago
Militant Ideals, Captured in Poetry - NYTimes.com
RT : The NYT is showing the love today. and
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21 days ago
Militant Ideals, Captured in Poetry - NYTimes.com
And another! Faisal Devji on 'The Poetry of Al Qaeda and the Taliban' in the NY Times tomorrow. Read it.
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21 days ago
The Taliban, in Their Own Verse - NYTimes.com
RT : the new poetry anthology by gets a write up in NYT blog via
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21 days ago
Nobody can tell the foreigners to stop what... | THE GUN.
RT : Precis: Poetry of the Taliban, edited by & . On the NYT/At War.
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21 days ago
Africa Review - Aid worker shot dead in Somalia
RT : An aid worker with Islamic Relief UK was murdered in Baidoa on Wednesday.
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21 days ago
The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ever-Changing Environment  »  Brill Online
"The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ever-Changing Environment" by Matthias Weinreich
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24 days ago
Afghanistan, April 2012 - All this
Foreign military deaths in Afghanistan (April 2012)
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26 days ago
Untitled (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/591434/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_6_last)
spoke too soon. the illiad just bumped us off the spot
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26 days ago
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RT : That's a section? RT : 'Poetry of the Taliban' currently in the war poetry section of Amazon ...
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26 days ago
Untitled (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1849041113/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=hurblo-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1849041113)
'Poetry of the Taliban' currently in the war poetry section of Amazon
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26 days ago
Untitled (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/poetry-of-the-taliban-released-by-british-publishers-7718319.html)
RT : Indy's take on 'Poetry of the Taliban'
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26 days ago
Untitled (http://bit.ly/ItK6Uw)
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27 days ago
Linking Qur’anic and modern conflicts – Poetry of the Taliban
RT : Asim Qureshi () offers some thoughts on 'Poetry of the Taliban'
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28 days ago
Taliban poetry book denounced by former British commander | Books | The Guardian
RT : The old debate, refreshed: Talib poetry book denounced by fmr British cdr. via w/ ...
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28 days ago
Taliban poetry book denounced by former British commander | Books | The Guardian
RT : That whole "know your enemy" thing:
talibanpoetry  guardian  UK  news  controversy  from twitter
28 days ago
Charlie Rose - Seth Jones
Seth Jones also says that this is in the declassified documents released today. Is that true?
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29 days ago
The spy who came in from the code : CJR
Journalists usually not very tech-aware when it comes to protecting their sources. Read by .
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29 days ago
Monocle 24 [Monocle]
At Monocle radio studios for live interview starting in 5 or 10 mins. Listen here
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29 days ago
Untitled (https://s3.amazonaws.com/CTCReports/Arabic.zip)
RT : 17 Abbottabad documents in Arabic from CTC
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29 days ago
Untitled (http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CTC_LtrsFromAbottabad_WEB_v2.pdf)
RT : Letters from Abbottabad: CTC Report on Data Seized When Bin Laden Killed
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29 days ago
Scope | Wife and War
A night-raid poem. 'Scope' by
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29 days ago
U.S. Military Information Operations in Afghanistan: Effectiveness of Psychological Operations 2001-2010 | RAND
RT : New RAND study shows that ISAF IO hasn't been effective since 2005.
IKnowIWasSurprised  from twitter
29 days ago
BBC News - Metropolitan Police 'stockpiling' plastic bullets
RT : Met 'stockpiling' rubber bullets
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29 days ago
brianwhelan.net - The MoD spokesman did not even know what borough...
RT : RT : Video: The MoD spokesman did not even know what borough he was in.
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29 days ago
BBC News - The Olympics missile base with sun deck, pool and bar
RT : RT : My BBC story on the Olympics missile base with sun deck, pool and private bar
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29 days ago
[Monocle 24]
I'll be on Monocle 24 (radio) tomorrow evening at around 6.20pm (UK time) talking Taliban poetry. Listen in here
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4 weeks ago
CTC to Release Documents from UBL Compound and Issue Analytical Report on Thursday May 3rd | Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
RT : CTC document dump from Abbottabad raid will drop Thursday morning at 9 a.m. EST
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4 weeks ago
When I Die : Lessons from the Death Zone - YouTube
mindfulness in the face of death
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4 weeks ago
Young women in Chechnya - The Big Picture - Boston.com
"Young women in Chechnya" (photo story by Diana Markosian)
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4 weeks ago
BBC iPlayer - The World Today: 29/04/2012
BBC interview on Taliban Poetry available for streaming here (starts at 36:00)
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4 weeks ago
Untitled (http://twitter.com/benturner83/status/195839823897034752/photo/1)
RT : Someone's chucking stuff out of the window of an office on tottenham court road street evacuated
tcr  from twitter
5 weeks ago
NPR Media Player
but there was this.
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5 weeks ago
BBC News - Bakerloo line train hits obstruction
apparently no collapse after all...
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5 weeks ago
Aim to gather official statistics on Afghan refugees fails - thenews.com.pk
RT : : Aim to gather official statistics on fails -
Peshawar  Afghan  refugees  from twitter
5 weeks ago
Chechen - Education - Malmö University
Discovery of the day. Swedish university offers distance-learning online course in Chechen language
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5 weeks ago
Untitled (http://www.ispr.gov.pk/front/main.asp?o=t-press_release&id=2043#pr_link2043)
RT : tests intermediate-range Hatf 1V nuclear-capable missile. Army statement
India  Pakistan  from twitter
5 weeks ago
(404) http://t.co/c
RT : "Investors are like birds" - foreign troops rush to exit together with country's businessmen -- ...
Afghanistan  from twitter
5 weeks ago
Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Shadows-Pursuit-Qaida-ebook/dp/B007HXF3UK/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2)
Oh looky looky. Seth Jones has a new book out. (). Could it be worse than 'In the Graveyard of Empires'?
worstever  from twitter
5 weeks ago
FAA List of Certificates of Authorizations (COAs) | Electronic Frontier Foundation
RT : Here's the list of police forces and institutions, which includes some small towns:
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5 weeks ago
Temporary release | Life After Deportation
Blog written by an Afghan () in refugee limbo in the UK
worthfollowing  from twitter
5 weeks ago
Bunny Cups - Baby Rabbits in Cups - YouTube
these guys are also pretty good
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5 weeks ago
Untitled (http://csis.org/files/publication/120418_afghanistan_uncertain_economics_transition.pdf)
New Cordesman report: "Afghanistan: The Uncertain Economics of Transition"
lotsofcharts  from twitter
5 weeks ago
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