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International scholars, activists, and aid workers address Afghanistan and the current phase of the U.S.-led War on Terror and place Afghanistan within global networks of power and influence, highlighting that nation's role in long term issues of nation-b
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Globalizing Afghanistan / Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess 1It's the Opium, Stupid: Afghanistan, Globalization, and Drugs / Nigel C. Gibson 31Afghanistan in a Globalized World: A Longer View / Rodney J. Steward 51The "Afghan Beat": Pukhtoon Journalism and the Afghan War / Altaf Ullah Khan 79Veiled Motives: Women's Liberation and the War in Afghanistan / Gwen Bergner 95Transnational Feminism and the Women's Rights Agenda in Afghanistan / Maliha Chishti & Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims 117Global Frames on Afghanistan: The Iranian Mediation of Afghanistan in International Art House Cinema after September 11, 2001 / Kamran Rastegar 145Conclusion: The Current Amazement / Afghanistan, Terror, and Theory / Imre Szeman 165Bibliography 187Contributors 201Index 205