Afghanistan

The Afghan people are trapped in a limbo between two styles of governance that do not fit in with their society: a Western-style democracy and a Wahhabist Taleban emirate. They believe in the ideals of freedom, equality, and national pride, but they need to be empowered to build a system that embodies these ideas in a uniquely Afghan way.

In preparation for a policy memo on the War in Afghanistan, the editorial staff of Atlantic-Community.org would like your feedback. We want to incorporate more of the opinions of the students and young professionals in the Middle East. Please contribute by answering the highlighted questions and giving concrete recommendations and/or policy suggestions. We [...]

I have been out of the posts for a while for many reasons but I wanted to chime in with respect to something that has been weighing on my mind for some time. As a witness to the current events unfolding in Waziristan I cannot help but think that there must be a more holistic [...]

This is my first post on Mideast Youth; I signed up a while back but sadly did not have/put in the time needed to write a story. I am a journalism student at a London University, born and raised in Denmark but originally Somali.  
It’s an exciting but nerve wracking new experience to have started [...]

Contributed to Afghan Press by Afghanistan’s Students’ Movement:
Dear Mr. Barack Hussein Obama,
We, members of the “Afghanistan’s Students Movement” congratulate you for your success in the Presidential elections of the United States of America, which we consider a sign for a better future. Your presence in the political arena of the world will rearrange many political [...]

Since the age of cannibalism to the present age of so-called human civilisation and democracy, it is the dominant society that has exploited the downtrodden society. Cannibalism, in a sense, is not a stigma on the forehead of humanity, as in that age of bleak barbarism it was eating the flesh of its own species, [...]

Città di Siena-ISF has awarded two prizes to two deserving Afghan journalists, 23 year old Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh and 25 year old Nasim Fekrat.
“This pushes me forward for the people of my generation. The objective is to bring Afghanistan in the world through digital technologies and the internet. For this reason we need your help,” [...]

Judge in Halliburton contract corruption trial clashes with defense
By Ray Hanania
(DATELINE Peoria, Il, Sept. 30, 2008) — The judge in the controversial trial of Jeff Mazon, a former Halliburton procurement officer accused of intentionally inflating a contract payment in exchange for a bribe, acknowledged his rulings have caused “some tensions.”
In the second day [...]

The Bush administration moved to prevent Jeff Mazon from making a defense that would most certainly shift the blame from charges he took a bribe to the more important questionable track record of his former employers, Halliburton.
In a motion made to U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade earlier this month, the Bush administration asked that [...]

سميّة: الانتحارية المحظوظة
Niqash – Kholoud Ramzi (Baghdad) – 21 August 2008:
Sumaya will never forget the day when armed al-Qaeda men forced her to practice wearing an explosive vest under her clothes in preparation for a suicide attack on a local market she was supposed to carry out the following day.
Sumaya’s story [...]