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Jolyon Leslie
Jolyon Leslie erzählt die jahrhundertealte Geschichte eines afghanischen Gartens namens Qal'a-ye Fatuh. Dieser Garten und sein dazugehöriges Gebäude legen Zeugnis ab über das Leben von Alim Khan, den Emir von Buchara, der an diesem Rückzugsort zwanzig Jahre im Exil gelebt hat. Seine Heimat Fergana rückte für Alim Khan seit der Besatzung durch das russische Kaiserreich im Jahre 1868 und die Angriffe des türkischen Generalleutnants Enver Pascha in immer weitere Ferne. Viele Spuren erzählen von der ursprünglichen Eleganz und Schönheit des Bauwerks und seines Gartens gleichwie von den gewaltsamen Ereignissen und Kämpfen, die sich dort zugetragen haben. Seit 1996 leben Mitglieder von Al-Qaida in der Nachbarschaft, und seither finden sich laut Leslie neue Krater in der Landschaft – geschürft von »smarten Raketen«. »Der Garten des Exils« lässt sich wie ein organisches Notizbuch, dessen Seiten in der Erde verhaftet sind, studieren. Jolyon Leslie (*1956) ist Architekt und lebt und arbeitet seit 1989 in Afghanistan. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
Afghanistan
Drawing on long experience of living and working in Afghanistan, Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie examine what the changes of recent years have meant in terms of Afghans' sense of their own identity and hopes for the future.
The UK's foreign policy approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan
In this report the Foreign Affairs Committee calls on the British Government to use its influence to persuade the US to engage more fully, and swiftly, with the process of political reconciliation in Afghanistan if the US wishes to disengage its forces there. Although the current international emphasis favours intense military pressure, aimed at defeating the insurgency, it is clear that military pressure alone is not enough to bring security and stability to Afghanistan. The evidence presented to the Committee has suggested that the current full-scale and highly-intensive ISAF counter-insurgency campaign is not succeeding. The Committee question the fundamental assumption that success in Af...
Bellicose Entanglements 1914
The First World War is often described as a regional war with few repercussions beyond Europe. However, by the dawn of the 20th century, global political and economic entanglements of empires and nation states had reached unprecedented dimensions. Consequently, the war affected the lives of millions of combatants and civilians alike: politically, socially and culturally. This book shifts the Eurocentric focus of Europeans fighting and dying on European battlefields to a broader, global perspective. With local accounts and perceptions ranging from Argentina to Afghanistan, from Iran to Senegal, the volume sheds light on the multitude of contributions to and consequences of the First World War all around the world.
The International Humanitarian Order
This book provides a critical exploration of the politics and practice of global ethical interventions. Organized in four parts Michael Barnett examines the tensions in the relationship between global governance, ethics, and international order.
Empire's Ally
The war in Afghanistan has been a major policy commitment and central undertaking of the Canadian state since 2001: Canada has been a leading force in the war, and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on aid and reconstruction. After a decade of conflict, however, there is considerable debate about the efficacy of the mission, as well as calls to reassess Canada’s role in the conflict. An authoritative and strongly analytical work, Empire’s Ally provides a much-needed critical investigation into one of the most polarizing events of our time. This collection draws on new primary evidence – including government documents, think tank and NGO reports, international media files, and interviews in Afghanistan – to provide context for Canadian foreign policy, to offer critical perspectives on the war itself, and to link the conflict to broader issues of political economy, international relations, and Canada’s role on the world stage. Spanning academic and public debates, Empire’s Ally opens a new line of argument on why the mission has entered a stage of crisis.
The Pearl of Khorasan
Herat is one of the most significant trading and cultural entrepots of Eurasia, which has long celebrated its Persian heritage
Shakespeare in Kabul
In 2005, a group of actors in Kabul performed Shakespeare's Love’s Labour's Lost to the cheers of Afghan audiences and the raves of foreign journalists. For the first time in years, men and women had appeared onstage together. The future held no limits, the actors believed. In this fast-moving, fondly told and frequently very funny account, Qais Akbar Omar and Stephen Landrigan capture the triumphs and foibles of the actors as they extend their Afghan passion for poetry to Shakespeare's.Both authors were part of the production. Qais, a journalist, served as Assistant Director and interpreter for Paris actress, Corinne Jaber, who had come to Afghanistan on holiday and returned to direct the play. Stephen, himself a playwright, assembled a team of Afghan translators to fashion a script in Dari as poetic as Shakespeare's. This chronicle of optimism plays out against the heartbreak of knowing that things in Afghanistan have not turned out the way the actors expected.
The Return of a King
In 1839 18,000 British troops marched into Afghanistan. Three years later, only one man emerged to tell the tale.. A towering history of the first Afghan war by bestselling historian William Dalrymple.
War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan
In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication is the culmination of Baily’s further research on Afghan music over the 35 years that followed. This took him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the USA, Australia and parts of Europe - London, Hamburg and Dublin. Arranged chronologically, the narrative traces the sequence of political events - from 1978, through the Soviet invasion, to the coming of the Taliban and, finally, the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 20...
