Four years after NATO's 2021 military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the logics of the evacuation continue to stratify Afghans amid expanding deportation and authoritarian regimes. My piece on
@TheContrapuntal: "An Imperial Evacuation."
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Artwork: Mohsin Taasha

مقاله‌ی من «زمین‌های طرد: مردانگی طبقه‌ی کارگر و نژادپرستی ضدافغان در ایران» در نقد اقتصاد سیاسی منتشر شد

ICYMI: Our New Gender Frontlines launch event is now up on YouTube! Check it out now and subscribe for updates! youtu.be/05JfyF1-GV8?...

Read about the interplay of working-class masculinity, anti-Afghan racism & tennis in Iran in my piece on @merip.bsky.social. Immense gratitude for Gol Agha Azizi, Farnaz & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian & @maryahannun.bsky.social. This piece was finalized before June 13, 2025.
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This panel brings together artists, librarians, and scholars to discuss challenges in the maintenance of collections in Afghanistan and its diasporas as well as the poetic, literary and artistic possibilities for rethinking archives. April 11, 2025, 1pm-2pm(EDT) www.library.upenn.edu/events/rethi...

Mar 6 – The 2016 documentary Overruled follows the lives of male refugees from Afghanistan who work as “ball boys” in tennis clubs in Iran. Following a screening, directors Farnaz Jurabchian & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian talk w/ Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social via Zoom. tinyurl.com/5n8dfmj2

I published an article in the Special Issue of the journal Afghanistan on "The Fall of the Republic and the Return of the Taliban," edited by Robert Crews.

In this book chapter, I discuss the experiences of refugees politically and legally categorized and treated as “male” and “Afghan,” within carceral structures spanning Germany and Afghanistan: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...