Sahar Ghumkhor

Wash­ing­ton’s de­ci­sion to give Afghan funds to 9/11 vic­tims is a con­tin­u­a­tion of its colo­nial ven­ture in Afghanistan.

The state’s (mis)man­age­ment of this pan­dem­ic has led us down a dan­ger­ous new path.

The dom­i­nant nar­ra­tive on the Tal­iban takeover of Afghanistan eras­es the decades of im­pe­r­i­al vi­o­lence Afghans suf­fered.

Chuck Lorre and Reza Aslan’s new CBS sit­com is an­oth­er it­er­a­tion of Hol­ly­wood’s clas­sic ‘white sav­iour’ sto­ry.

Aus­tralians con­tin­ue to be­lieve they are fight­ing a good war in Afghanistan, de­spite mount­ing ev­i­dence to the con­trary.

Why West­ern au­di­ences love feel-good sto­ries about Afghan girls do­ing ‘brave’ things.

Is Bren­ton Tar­rant re­al­ly an aber­ra­tion?

Be­ing on stand­by to con­demn every ‘ter­ror’ in­ci­dent has long been a pre­con­di­tion of be­ing a ‘good’ Mus­lim. Not any­more.