Tamim Ansary on Shedding Light on Afghanistan
Speaker: Tamim Ansary, Author, Games without Rules Moderator: Anja Manuel, Principal, The RiceHadley Group, LLC From the outside the conflict in Afghanistan has been painted as a war between prodemocracy forces and Islamist fanaticism. It is, however only one small part of the larger and much older conflictbetween Kabul and rural Afghanistan, between the attraction of the modern world on the one hand and traditional Afghanistan on the other. Drawing on his Afghan and Muslim roots, Tamim Ansary reveals a centuriesold internal Afghan struggle the world has never fully understood. Ansary sheds light on a country desperately trying to find its identity, while undermined by its own demons, plagued by a 4060 year cycle of invasion by outside forces and constantly at the center of an illinformed international political debate. This event is in partnership with the Asia Society and Mechanics Institute. Help us caption translate this video
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