Culture of Afghanistan

implied that the remainder of the world has experienced the same (when compared to other issues). In the article, “Afghan Policewomen Struggle Against Culture” by Alissa J. Rubin, the gender roles of the Afghan people are revealed to be extremely skewed and, at times, demoralizing. With the goal in mind to expose the maltreatment of women in Afghanistan (and society as a whole), Rubin primarily employs pathos, logos, and realism to stress and/or to bring to light true gender inequality far worse…

Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini plans the event of Hassan’s rape by Assef, along with Amir’s reaction, to create a resemblance between the characters in the novel to Afghanistan and American people. Amir’s silence is meant to symbolize the silence of America, where as Hassan’s willingness to accept his “punishment” symbolizes the Afghanistan people as a whole. Amir’s character is created to symbolize America. While Hassan is being raped, Amir silently looks on, avoiding any confrontation that…

It is immigration in general, whether voluntary or involuntary, legal or illegal, that constitutes this threat, as long as the immigrants pose a challenge to the identity of the receiving state through their different language, culture, or religion (Tallmeister, 2013). According to data maintained by the U.S. Department of State, 30,557 Afghans either resettled as refugees (6,205) across the United States or were granted special immigrant visas (924,352), normally to translators…

resolution, allowing him to “use force against those responsible for attacking the United States,” on September 18, 2001 (“U.S. War in Afghanistan”). Only a week after the heart-breaking attacks, the nation widely supported what would turn out to be the most expensive and the longest war in American history (Greenwald). Many scholars would argue that the war in Afghanistan caused catastrophe in an already unstable nation, complicated relations with “the most dangerous country” in the world,…

Afghanistan is a nation composed of many societies, throughout these we find common values and topics of interest. Among these are health care, education, and basic aspects of social life. In general, these are some of the most usual parts inside of a society in any country. Yet like others, Afghan culture, landscape, and political disputes create a specific and unique society for their country. A nation built by almost thirty one million people, united by their daily activities and similarities…

mesh, your appearance anonymous to preserve your purity. Those who dared to show their bodies would be stoned or thrown in prison. This is the reality of the world that many women lived in under the Mujahideen occupation of Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini’s portrayal of Afghanistan in 1000 Splendid Suns gives an insight into the mistreatment of women in a heavily misogynistic society. He tells the story of Mariam, who is fifteen when she is married off to a man three times her age named Rasheed. At…

When your freedom is thievery stolen from your own home country, nothing feels like home anymore. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghani-American novelist born in Afghanistan. Living in Afghanistan he had said that he grew up in a very peaceful place which made the author get the inspiration to write most of his stories settings in Afghanistan. One of his stories that had been drawn to the reader’s attention was “The Kite Runner’’. Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian author born in Cairo. Many of her writings…

tribe represented about 400,000 people in eastern Afghanistan. The Shinwari tribe also pledged to send at least one military-age male in each family to the Afghan Army or the police in the event of a Taliban attack. The American commanders agreed to channel one million dollars in development projects directly to the tribal leaders and bypass the local Afghan government, believe to be corrupt. “The Taliban have been trying to destroy our tribe, and they are taking money from us, and they are…

as if he has the agency to commit these acts because of his economic superiority. The mistrust between the different tribal groups in Kabul is caused by stigmas rather than actual events causing poor feelings. This motif was not only present in Afghanistan but it was also present in…

From Hammer and Anvil to Drones. Early in the War the United States wanted Pakistan to act as Anvil while it hammers Taliban and Afghan fighters in Afghanistan. Since the border on the Paksitani side was not guarded, Taliban and Al Qaeda Militants managed to sneak into their hideouts in Waziristan. Many operations like “operation Apollo”, “Operation Anaconda” and “Battle of Tora Bora” hammerd Taliban but the anvil simply wasn’t there (refrence http://s3.amazonaws.com/nytdocs/docs/21/21.pdf…