{"title": "Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'", "start": "2026-11-10T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/JNUxM7FKnS", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/media"], "description": "A book launch for 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power', hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute and the SOAS South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London. The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. 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Shringarpure, a Paris-based writer, editor and producer, explores Aboulela's childhood in Khartoum, her migration to Scotland and her journey to becoming a writer, weaving together interviews and literary criticism. 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Writer Tareq Baconi, a Palestinian writer, scholar and activist, presents a literary manifesto on Palestine and our collective future, arguing that Palestine is a litmus test whose repercussions extend beyond the Middle East. It is a philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine and our world will look like in the twenty-first century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meet-the-bard-tareq-baconi-41014/", "official_url": "https://www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-details/meet-the-bard-tareq-baconi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5703c8da5241981b0159f54855cc4de452787161f437c16996cc0c51c650347-2000.webp"}]}