Our Forgotten History
Shabnam Nasimi\ud83c\udfdb️ Creator journalist, storyteller and writer. \ud83d\udcfd️ Exploring the history, politics, art, culture & heritage of Afghanistan, South Asia & beyond.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 47 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 23 days ago |
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"An educated mind is the greatest weapon against injustice"
Today, India’s education minister resigned. Dharmendra Pradhan sent his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and a movement that had begun as a joke, a satirical Instagram account for “cockroaches” had won.
Abhijeet Dipke, the student...
"this too shall pass"
How a thousand year old Persian phrase, used so casually in the West, was never just consolation, but a weapon aimed at tyrants and injustice.
Someone has probably said it to you. I know they’ve said it to me. Many many times. You’re in th...
The god who got lost on the way to Bactria.
This is how one of the most Mediterranean object in the British Museum was made in what is today Afghanistan.
There is a particular kind of quiet in a museum before it opens. No shuffling crowds, no school groups being told for the fourth...
"I am fine"
My inbox since the Taliban began rounding up the girls of Herat this week — a few of the hundreds of messages I've received, and that I need you to read.
The messages below arrived in my Instagram inbox over the course of the last few days...
The Taliban's culture is not Afghanistan's culture
The Taliban's culture was manufactured and imposed on Afghanistan for decades. It is not our culture, and it is certainly not our history.
Over the last few days, after a BBC report on fathers in Afghanistan selling their daughters to surv...
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Writer and public historian, bringing you lost and erased stories from Afghanistan and beyond. Usually found digging through the past in an old bookshop.
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