Connections Episode 29
Afghanistan in Crisis
Mouin Rabbani Interviews Ali Latifi
Tuesday 22 February 2022
2:00 PM EST | 20:00 CET | 23:30 Kabul
Join us on Tuesday, 22 February for a discussion between Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Ali Latifi about Afghanistan six months after the withdrawal of NATO forces and assumption of power by the Taliban. This episode of Connections will examine Afghanistan’s political landscape, the humanitarian emergency, and the role of foreign powers.
Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
Guest
Ali Latifi is an Afghan-American journalist. He spent eight years working in Afghanistan after returning to Kabul, the city of his birth, in 2013. During more than a decade reporting on the situation in Afghanistan Latifi traveled to more than 15 provinces and followed Afghan refugees in Turkey, Greece, and Italy. His work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, CNN, Deutsche Welle, VICE News and other leading international outlets.
Host
Mouin Rabbani has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
Previous Episodes
Connections Podcast Episode 1: The Biden Administration and the Middle East with Noam Chomsky
Connections Podcast Episode 2: The Politics of Holy Cities with Mick Dumper and Maha Samman
Connections Podcast Episode 3: Apartheid Israel with Norman Finkelstein
Connections Podcast Episode 4: Israel-Palestine: A Turning Point? with Nathan Thrall
Connections Podcast Episode 5: Investigating Israel with Lori Allen
Connections Podcast Episode 6: The US Congress, Israel, and the Palestinians with Lara Friedman
Connections Podcast Episode 7: Palestine at the Crossroads with Hanan Ashrawi
Connections Podcast Episode 9: Lebanon in Crisis with Nadya Sbaiti
Connections Episode 10: Crisis in Tunisia with Houda Mzioudet
Connections Episode 11: A Planet in the Balance with Jeffrey D. Sachs
Connections Episode 12: Focus Afghanistan with Benon Sevan
Connections Episode 13: Asylum in the USA with Basileus Zeno
Connections Episode 14 - Digital Espionage: A Global Pandemic with Marwa Fatafta
Connections Episode 15: The Lasting Legacies of US Torture with Lisa Hajjar
Connections Episode 16: Whither Yemen? with Helen Lackner
Connections Episode 17: A Decade of Upheaval with Nabih Bulos
Connections Episode 18 — Iran: Domestic and Foreign Politics with Ali Vaez
Connections Episode 22: Narrations of Palestine with Alison Glick and Nora Lester Murad
Connections Episode 23: The Global Far Right with Cas Mudde
Connections Episode 24: Crises in The Maghreb with Samia Errazzouki
Connections Episode 25: War Economies with Mark Taylor
Connections Episode 26: Libya in the Balance with Claudia Gazzini
Connections Episode 27: Israel's Sacred Terrorism with Remi Brulin
Connections Episode 28: Tunisia's New Autocracy with Mohammed Haddad
