Mujahideen

The fictional novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini provides a vivid portrayal of a country devastated by idealised leaders and wars initiated on it by foreign and internal forces. The narrative is in perspective of two women living in the problematic society. This text sheds light on Afghanistan and the implications of a corrupt government has brought on it 's people. Due to it 's relevance today, my view of society has been altered because of the discrepancy of this book to my…

Ali Khadery (2014) Three years ago, the Islamic State (ISIS) did not exist; now it controls vast swaths of Syria and Iraq. Showing off its handiwork daily via Twitter and YouTube, Isis has repeatedly demonstrated that it is much more than a transnational terrorist organization – rather, it is an entity with sophisticated command, control, propaganda and logistical capabilities, and one that has proven its ability to take and hold strategically critical territory at the heart of the Middle East.…

always felt like lore to her. Like characters in a fable. Like kings in a history book...It is Tariq who is real, flesh and blood...in Laila’s heart, her true brother is alive and well” (170). Communistic regime was soon overthrown by Mujahideen, and the sky was filled with live rounds and the hope for inequality. The civil area was soon a terrifying battlefield causing many to flee. Laila’s family was one of them, but due to misfortune, a stray grenade killed her family leaving her…

Afghanistan I. Introduction Hook: Afghanistan…. Because we live in America, our government and hollywood have indoctrinated us over our lifetime. Why do I say that? For most of us, when I said Afghanistan we began to picture what we have been trained to think of. Ak-47’s, bearded men wearing white turbans and robes, terrorist, bombs… Our government is wrong. Hollywood is wrong. We are wrong. Wrong for judging. Purpose: Shed light on students of what the Afghan culture is and our misconceptions.…

July 7, 2005 was supposed to be a normal day in London, but little did London know this day would walk off down in history. On this Thursday morning, four Islamic suicide bombers were spread across London and separately detonated three bombs in succession. These bombs were detonated within the underground subways throughout the city. Later that day, a fourth bomb was detonated on a double-decker bus within the Tavistock Square. This attack would exit down as the first ever suicide attack within…

Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War. The US would aid anti-communist guerillas and resistance movements that would undermine Soviet-backed regions of the world like Africa, Asia and Latin America. Under Carter the US would help the Afghan Mujahideen and when Reagan became president he would have their leaders in the White House. Arming the Contras in Nicaragua, Savimbi’s UNITA in Angola and the Mujahadeen would all be part of the Reagan doctrine. All this taking place across the…

“They shot my father right in front of me. They came to our house and told him they had orders to kill him because he allowed me to go to school. The Mujahideen had already stopped me from going to school, but that was not enough. I cannot describe what they did to me after killing my father...” says a 15 year old girl from Kabul. Many might wonder why the women don’t take action to fight for their rights…

From the years of 1946 to 1991, the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Britain and much of Eastern Europe were involved in what is known as the Cold war. Foreign policies across the globe were concerned with a few major concepts, of which two were the most prevalent: containment and the Domino Theory. The countries not involved in NATO and the Warsaw Pact were highly competed for, in terms of annexation and expansion, by those two groups, in the attempts to make either capitalism or…

Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns narrates the lives of two Afghan women through three generations of war and conflict in Afghanistan. At first glance, the novel appears to be a appalling depiction of the injustice and cruelty towards women in Afghan society. However, Hosseini’s message may be far more hopeful than the novel’s grim atmosphere may suggest. A Thousand Splendid Suns depicts the conflict in Afghanistan through the lens of the country’s oppressed women. Yet, the novel…

POLITICAL - The power structure in Afghanistan witnessed change when the Soviet Union invaded the country. The local traditional leaders were targeted only to be replaced by ones who would be loyal to the Soviet Union. Therefore, this demanded war and fighting to be taken as as full time job so as to successfully fight the enemy and the traditional structures were replaced by the emergence of strong military commanders who dominated the local population in the name of their defending the country…