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Poetry of the Taliban

May 27 2012
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Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, editors. Foreword by Faisal Devji. Poetry of the Taliban. London: Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2012. Since there is already a substantial discussion surrounding this compilation of poetry "of" the Taliban, it seems important to review the work within a series of broader contexts. Writing on Afghanistan has recently enjoyed an upsurge, but this is not the first such spike of western interest in Afghanistan. Amid a major ...

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James Caron

 

James Caron is Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia in the Department of Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS (from Fall 2012). He has taught South Asian and Central Asian history and cultural studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his PhD, and at Rutgers-Newark. He has conducted research in Peshawar and Kabul, has published on Afghan sociocultural history in History Compass and Journal of Social History as well as in various volumes, and is completing a book on Pashto poetic histories of the world.

"We have the luxury, even if we don't have the right, to say that not all solutions are going to be better than what exists today."
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