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Understanding Afghanistan Through Literature

Muhammad Gul Khan Momand: poet, writer, and orator

October 25th: Afghan Women Writers Listen Listen
Guest: Fevziya Barlas, Afghan woman poet

 

October 24th: Reflections of War in Modern Writing Listen Listen
Guest: Wali Ahmadi, Professor of Perisan Literature at the University of California at Berkeley

 

October 23rd: Afghan Classical Literature Listen Listen
Guest: William Beeman, Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Brown University

Stories from The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) (a massive poem of some 25, 000 rhyming couplets)

Rumi's Poems

Rumi's Mystical Poems

Writings of Rudaki

 

October 22nd: The Ancient Art of Storytelling Listen Listen
Guest: Margaret Mills, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University

Read Afghan Stories of Wisdom

 

 

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