Welcome to The Afghanistan Project Podcast, where hosts Mikael Cook and Beth Bailey highlight the struggles of Afghans living under Taliban rule, and the efforts of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and political affiliations who have stepped up to provide support to the people of Afghanistan in the chaos that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Keeping Afghanistan in the spotlight through the stories of its people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Talks about why people are moving out of there homes from Afghanistan
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THE ORIGINAL TRUE NEWS FROM AFGHANISTAN
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Mitte August 2021 fiel Kabul in die Hände der Taliban. Während die deutsche Bundesregierung noch nach Lösungen suchte, kümmerten sich ein paar Freiwillige in Berlin darum, bedrohte Menschen mit waghalsigen Aktionen aus Afghanistan zu retten. Die 4-teilige Doku-Serie „17 Tage Scheitern“, schildert den Einsatz einer international vernetzten Freiwilligen-Gruppe bei der Evakuierung einer afghanischen Polizistin.
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Hør stemmene til norske soldater når de forteller sine historier – om landet de kjempet i, fienden de møtte og kampene de stod i – tjue år med ørkenkrig. En serie om våre soldater og våre historier. Historien om: Afghanistan – en podkastserie fra Forsvaret. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wo eine alte Weltordnung zu Ende war, beginnt die dritte Staffel von "Killed in Action": bei 9/11. Welche Fehler passierten im Chaos der bis dahin einmaligen Situation vom 11. September 2001? Wie erlebten die Beteiligten diese Zeit und wie blicken sie heute darauf zurück, nach der erneuten Machtübernahme der Taliban? Christoph Heinzle und Kai Küstner gehen in "Killed in Action - Mission ohne Ziel" zurück zu den Anfängen. Sie werfen einen Blick auf die frühen Entscheidungen, darunter auch jen ...
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The speed of the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan in August 2021 took the world by surprise. Now there is uncertainty and fear among many Afghans - what will Taliban rule look like? What will become of their country? The Taliban took control of Kabul just weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the event that led to the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 and the Taliban’s fall. It was hoped this would be a new beginning, bringing peace to a country that had known nothing but war ...
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Art Conaghan on UK response during Afghanistan evacuation : The Afghanistan Project Podcast Ep. 78
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Welcome to Episode 78 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Today’s guest is Art Conaghan, a public affairs specialistin the UK who was a Parliamentary Chief of Staff for an MP in Northampton, outside of London, at the time of the withdrawal…
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M. Ashraf Haidari on return of Afghanistan democracy: The Afghanistan Project Podcast Ep. 77
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Welcome to Episode 77 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. My guest today is an esteemed representative of theGovernment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, His Excellency Mohammed Ashraf Haidari. Ashraf served as the Ambassador of Afgh…
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Geeta Bakshi of Famil on supporting Afghan Zero Units - The Afghanistan Project Podcast Ep. 76
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Welcome to Episode 76 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Today’s guest is Geeta Bakshi, a former CIA counterterrorism officer and founder of Famil, a national nonprofit organization which provides support to Afghan allies, particularly me…
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Shawn VanDiver on #AfghanEvac under Trump Administration: The Afghanistan Project Podcast Ep. 75
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Welcome to Episode 75 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Today’s guest is Shawn VanDiver, a 12-year veteran of theU.S. Navy, and the founder and president of the #AfghanEvac coalition, an umbrella of multiple volunteers and professionals …
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Afghan reunification with John Moses, Elizabeth Lynn, Terry Symula - The Afghanistan Project Ep. 74
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Welcome to Episode 74 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Our guests today are John Moses, Elizabeth Lynn, and Terry Symula, all of whom are intimately involved in cases where Afghan families separated as a result of the noncombatant evacu…
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Saad Mohseni: The extraordinary life of a media visionary who changed Afghanistan
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Saad Mohseni is the Chairman and CEO of Moby Group, and the author of 'Radio Free Afghanistan'. Born in London, raised in Kabul, Tokyo and Melbourne, Saad Mohseni has been one of the most influential figures in Afghanistan's recent history, transforming Afghanistan and its culture by revolutionising the country's media landscape. In this interview,…
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Andy Sullivan of No One Left Behind on SIV future - The Afghanistan Project Podcast Ep. 73
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Welcome to Episode 73 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Our guest today is Andy Sullivan, the Chief Advocacy Officer for No One Left Behind, a nonprofit organization that supports the wartime allies whom we promised assistance through th…
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Jason Howk on Afghanistan under President-elect Trump - The Afghanistan Project Podcast Ep. 72
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Welcome to Episode 72 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Today’s guest is Jason Howk, a veteran of the U.S. Army who was involved firsthand in key periods of our twenty-year effort to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. Our discussi…
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Lynne O'Donnell talks Afghan war journalism, Taliban arrest - The Afghanistan Project Podcast Ep. 71
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Welcome to Episode 71 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Today’s guest is the journalist and author Lynne O’Donnell, who has been fearlessly covering Afghanistan since shortly after September 11, 2001 and continues to document the atrocit…
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Gen H.R. McMaster: What does Trump 2.0 mean for Afghanistan?
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General H.R. McMaster served as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor for 14 months during his first term and he formulated America's South Asia Strategy, which Trump abandoned after McMaster's departure. In this interview, he discusses the implications of the second Trump presidency for the world, looks back at the failure in Afghanistan and wh…
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Will Selber & Beth Bailey talk regime whitewashing pre-election - The Afghanistan Project Podcast
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Welcome to The Afghanistan Project Podcast. For this special pre-election episode, I'm bringing back return guest Lt. Col. (R) Will Selber for an awesome update about the increased efforts to whitewash the Taliban regime in the leadup to U.S. presidential elections. We discuss a New York Times piece that gallingly talks of the great hope that terro…
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Documentarian Brent Huffman discusses "Saving Mes Aynak" : The Afghanistan Project Podcast Episode 70
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Welcome to Episode 70 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war inAfghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Today’s guest is Brent Huffman, a documentary filmmaker and professor at Northwestern University, where he is director of documentary journalism. Brent is the director, producer, cin…
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Sune Rasmussen: Afghanistan is a part of me
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Sune Engel Rasmussen is a Danish journalist and author who lived in Afghanistan, reporting extensively for several international outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. In this interview, we discuss his book Twenty Years, which offers an unique intimate insight into two decades of Western involvement in Afghanistan, told throug…
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Gaisu Yari talks Afghan Voices of Hope : The Afghanistan Project Podcast Episode 69
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Welcome to Episode 69 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. Today’s guest is Gaisu Yari, a human rights activist, writer, and speaker who has fought for freedom in Afghanistan and vocally opposed the Taliban's repressive rule there. In today…
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Military Transition with Rob Dufresne, Jenn Noonkester, & Michael DeSerio - The Afghanistan Project Podcast Episode 68
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Welcome to Episode 68 of The Afghanistan Project, where we cover all topics related to two decades of war inAfghanistan, and the fallout of our Afghanistan withdrawal. For today’s topic of military transition, I have three special guests: Jenn Noonkester, a retired Air Force senior NCO; Michael DeSerio, a 15-year Army senior NCO, and Rob Dufresne, …
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Episode 67 : Author and Global Analyst Fazle Chowdhury
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Welcome to Episode 67 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast with guest Fazle Chowdhury, distinguished writer and global affairs analyst known for his in-depth exploration of Ukrainian, Iranian, and post-communist affairs. Fazle talks about the origin of conflict in Southeast Asia, and how Peshawar, Pakistan changed during the conflict in neighboring …
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Episode 66 : Air Force veteran Jenn Noonkester on evacuation upheaval
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Welcome to Episode 66 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast featuring a retired Air Force senior NCO Jenn Noonkester, who has been involved in efforts to support Afghans seeking to escape their homeland. Jenn spoke about her military service prior to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the upheaval that occurred financially, physically, and ment…
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Andrew North: My 20 years in Afghanistan
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Andrew North is an award-winning British journalist and former BBC correspondent in Afghanistan, Iraq, India, and the United States. He lived and reported from Afghanistan throughout two decades of international involvement and visited the country three times after the Taliban’s return, with his last visit resulting in his kidnapping by the group’s…
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Episode 65 : Afghan journalist in exile Bilal Sarwary
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Welcome to Episode 65 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast featuring Afghan journalist in exile, Bilal Sarwary. Bilal and I talk about many of the more nuanced aspects of Taliban rule that are not getting covered, either because journalists in the West lack a comprehensive source network inside Afghanistan, or because the Taliban have effectively qua…
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Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 2)
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Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and joined one of the Mujahideen factions as a teenager. An ambush on Soviet forces, during which he was injured, and the discovery of a handwritten letter b…
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Episode 64 : DA Hillar Moore and former TX prosecutor Joe Maida talk Afghan prosecutors at risk
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Welcome to Episode 64 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast with special guests Hillar Moore and Joe Maida. Hillar Moore is the District Attorney for East Baton Rouge and has developed a reputation for fighting hard for victims, including those impacted by domestic abuse, fraternity hazing, and the rising opioid epidemic. As a member of the Associatio…
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Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 1)
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Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and joined one of the Mujahideen factions as a teenager. An ambush on Soviet forces, during which he was injured, and the discovery of a handwritten letter b…
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Episode 63 : Marine Vet Gabby Southern Daiss talks Female Search Teams of HKIA
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Welcome to Episode 63 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Our guest this week is Marine Corps veteran Gabby Southern Daiss, who was taking part in the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit as an adjutant for Combat Logistics Battalion 24 when she was diverted to Hamid Karzai International Airport to assist with the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 20…
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Sir William Patey: The Taliban cannot turn Kabul into a Pashtun village
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Sir William Patey is a retired British diplomat with extensive experience in Middle Eastern and South Asian geopolitics. He served as the UK Ambassador to Kabul from 2010 to 2012, following earlier roles as Ambassador to Sudan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. In this interview, he shares his insights and analysis on Afghanistan—discussing what went wrong, …
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Mark Urban: Ashraf Ghani was not enough of a bastard
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Mark Urban is a British journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author of many books, including War in Afghanistan and The Skripal Files. He has covered Afghanistan extensively since the late 1980s, witnessing firsthand the withdrawal of Soviet forces, accompanying Ahmad Shah Massoud as he took Kabul in 1992, and other key events. In this intervi…
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Welcome to a short update from TheAfghanistan Project Podcast, where Beth talks about the impending return ofnormal episodes and highlights her new Substack account, where she will be sharingstories from Afghanistan that need telling. Find the Substack account here and please sign up for updates: https://bwbailey85.substack.com/ About the host: Bet…
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Sir Laurie Bristow: Why did we get it so badly wrong for 20 years?
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Sir Laurie Bristow, the UK's last ambassador in Kabul, witnessed the disintegration of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban in August 2021. He is the author of Kabul: Final Call, which provides an insider's view of the events as they unfolded. In this interview, we discuss the book, Sir Laurie’s re…
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Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 2)
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Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History' and 'Shadow Empires,' among many others. In this interview, he talks about traveling around Afghanistan for the first time in 1971 and the …
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Episode 62 : John Moses and the Evac Fellows' 68 Miracles
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Welcome to Episode 62 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Our guest this week is Army veteran John Moses, a veteran fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-founder of the Massachusetts Afghan Alliance, an organization supporting Afghans building new lives in Massachusetts. This week, John takes us through his participation in evacuation support dur…
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Episode 61 : Gaisu Yari, Mariam Solaimankhil, and Jason Howk on third round Doha talks
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Welcome to Episode 61 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. I’m joined today by three women’s rights advocates to discuss the UN’s third round of talks about Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar. Mariam Solaimankhil is a former member of the Parliament of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Gaisu Yari is a human rights activist, writer, and …
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Episode 60 : John Moses with the Massachusetts Afghan Alliance
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Welcome to Episode 60 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Our guest this week is Army veteran John Moses, a veteran fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-founder of the Massachusetts Afghan Alliance, an organization supporting Afghans building new lives in Massachusetts. John and Beth talk at length about the trauma for Afghans who were separated…
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Episode 59 : Leslie Merriman with Our Culture is Giving
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Welcome to Episode 59 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Our guest this week is Leslie Merriman, whose work volunteering to aid Afghan special immigrant visa recipients through No One Left Behind became a broader mission of feeding SIV applicants left behind in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021. Leslie’s work has now expanded to …
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Episode 58 : Bill Roggio and Will Selber talk terror in Afghanistan
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Welcome to Episode 58 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast, featuring the incredible return guests Bill Roggio, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an unmatched expert on the Taliban, and Will Selber, retired Air Force Lt. Col., prolific writer, and host of the "Shoulder to Shoulder" and "Stories From My Brothers" podcasts.…
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Episode 57 : Over Never Out musical group's "Hold On, Reach Out"
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Welcome to Episode 57 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Our guests today are Rob Dufresne, Tony Barnes, and Jason Howk, members of “Over Never Out.” Together, the group created “Hold On, Reach Out,” a moving song about the important role veterans play for one another in the fight for mental health growth and countering spiking suicide rates in th…
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Episode 56 : "Amina," reporting from Afghanistan
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Welcome to Episode 56 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Our special guest today is an Afghan woman still living under Taliban rule in hiding in Afghanistan. We will be calling her “Amina” to protect her identity. Amina spoke about her life as a legal professional beforethe Taliban came to power, and the fear that accompanied their takeover as the…
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Episode 55 : Will Selber - Saving Ahmadullah
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Welcome to Episode 55 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. We're bringing back a return guest, retired Lt. Col. Will Selber, for an awesome update about how he was able to get Ahmadullah to safety, and the superhuman levels of trust and faith Afghan allies have had to hold in their American contacts in order to secure safety in the aftermath of the …
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Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 1)
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Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History' and 'Shadow Empires,' among many others. In this interview, he talks about traveling around Afghanistan for the first time in 1971 and the …
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Episode 54 : John Ondrasik, "Five For Fighting"
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Welcome to Episode 54 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast, featuring John Ondrasik, the platinum-selling, Grammy nominated recording artist also known as Five For Fighting. John discusses the anger he felt during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that led him to write “Blood On My Hands” and begin his efforts to help Afghans left behind during th…
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Artemis Akbary: The costs of being gay in Afghanistan
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Artemis Akbary is an LGBTIQ rights activist and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Afghan LGBT Organization (ALO), and a producer/presenter at Radio Ranginkaman. They have spoken and campaigned at various international gatherings about the plight of the LGBTIQ community in Afghanistan. In this moving interview, Artemis shares their person…
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Episode 53 : Beau Lendman with AfghanHire
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Welcome to Episode 53 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast, featuring Beau Lendman, a former Senior Vice President at Anham whose support to the company’s 5,000 Afghan special immigrant visa applicants led him to create AfghanHire, a remote hiring platform that links skilled Afghans with lucrative jobs. Beau and I discussed the effort of supporting s…
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Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 2)
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Episode 52 : Amy Sins with Fill the Needs
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Welcome to Episode 52 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast, featuring Amy Sins, a master of all trades and dynamic disaster relief professional. Amy is a chef and owner of Langlois, a traveling culinary showcase in her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. Amy is also the founder and executive director of Fill the Needs, a nonprofit organization throug…
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Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 1)
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Thomas Ruttig is a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. He has worked on and in Afghanistan since he graduated in Afghan Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1985: as an East German (GDR) diplomat, including at the GDR Embassy in Kabul (1985-89), as political affairs officer for two United Nations missions in Afghanistan (2000-200…
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Episode 51 : Travel journalist Mike No Go Zones
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Welcome to Episode 51 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Today’s guest, Mike No Go Zones, is a YouTuber and independent journalist who takes his viewers to the places around the country and world that we’re often urged to avoid. In March 2021, Mike traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, capturing some of the last moments of relative freedom the inhabitan…
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Fereshta Abbasi: I am lucky to be alive
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Episode 50 : Veteran advocate James Powers
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Welcome to Episode 50 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Today’s guest, James Powers, is an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran and advocate for veterans causes, and another American swept into the morass of post-withdrawal Afghanistan. Today, James and Beth talk about how he got pulled into the volunteer effort to assist vulnerable Afghans in the day…
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Llewelyn Morgan: The Buddhas of Bamiyan
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Llewelyn Morgan is a professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of "The Buddhas of Bamiyan", a book that explores the long and complex history of the Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, and their eventual destruction in 2001. Professor Morgan has written extensively on Afghanistan, and in this interview, he discusses hi…
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Episode 49 - Journalist Sean Carberry, author of "Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home"
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Welcome to Episode 49 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Today’s guest, Sean Carberry, is a journalist and author whose detailed first-hand reporting on Afghanistan has long enabled him to question the overarching narrative of the West’s ability to provide lasting success in Afghanistan through the programs and efforts it established during nearly…
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Episode 48 : Michael DeSerio
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Welcome to Episode 48 of The Afghanistan Project Podcast, where hosts Beth Bailey and Mikael Cook highlight the struggles of Afghans living under Taliban rule, and the efforts of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and political affiliations who have stepped up to provide support to the people of Afghanistan in the chaos that followed the U.S…
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Franz-Michael Mellbin: Afghans were not good allies
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Ambassador Franz-Michael Mellbin is a former EU Special Representative and Danish ambassador in Afghanistan. He played a central role in the implementation of the Danish and EU efforts in Afghanistan, from September 11, 2001, until the evacuation from Kabul. He assisted the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations with the planning of US Afghanistan…
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