CNES Podcasts

Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University

From Early Judeo-Iranian Jargons to Central Asiatic Argots of Rom Groups: Evidence for an Influential Jewish Underworld in the Late Abbasid Period
A lecture by Martin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley

A book reading in French, Dari and English by Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author
Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author reads from his book The Patience Stone

Afghanistan in Ink Introduction
Conference Introduction by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA

The Temporality of Selfhood: Azhdaha-i Khudi as an Allegory of History
A lecture by Wali Ahmadi, UC Berkeley, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference

Afghan Discourses of Occupation Today: Oral and Literary Proverbs and Aphorisms in Uncertain Times
A Lecture by Margaret Mills, Ohio State University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference.

Solitude, Diaspora, and Narration: Epic Memory in Afghan and Afghan-American Literature
A lecture by Shafiq Shamel, Stanford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference

Nation, War and Exile as Portrayed in Afghan Diasporic Fiction: The Case of Muhammad Asef Soltanzadeh
A lecture by Dr. Mir Hekmatullah Sadat, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference

Intimate Realism: Recording the Experience of Exile in Second-Generation Refugee Poetry in Iran
A lecture by Zuzanna Olszewska, St. Johns College, Oxford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference

Turning on the Taliban: Radical fiction from the Sewing Circles of Herat
A lecture by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA, part of the Afghanistan in Ink conference.