Our Members’ Work

2019, Nadia Maiwandi writes about the use of photography to address religious intolerance in LA Weekly: https://www.laweekly.com/arts/focus-iran-3-photography-exhibition-turns-its-lens-on-intolerance-10138701

2019, Wazhmah Osman featured on podcast Imagine Otherwise: Ideas on Fire for feature titled “Autoethnography and Afghan Documentary Film”: https://ideasonfire.net/22-wazhmah-osman/

2018, Helena Zeweri writes about Australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers in Anthropology News, and the Political and Legal Anthropology Review

2017, Helena Zeweri publishes article on how the concept of ‘precarity’ functions in US-run women’s rights NGOs in Afghanistan in the International Feminist Journal of Politics

2017, Wazhmah Osman featured on Democracy Now for feature titled “U.S. Drops Its Biggest Non-Nuclear Bomb on Afghans, Already Traumatized by Decades of War”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uXs_J6563g

2017, Seelai Karzai writes in collaboration with Afghan writers Ali A. Olomi and Laila Rashidie about the MOAB an article titled “After MOAB, More Afghans Unite to Resist US War and Occupation”: https://truthout.org/articles/after-moab-more-afghans-unite-to-resist-us-war-and-occupation/

2017, Wazhmah Osman featured on podcast Anthropological Airwaves for feature titled “The Military Present”: https://podcasts.apple.com/sn/podcast/special-feature-military-present-episode-3-feat-wazhmah/id1230561935?i=1000408593124

2017, Wazhmah Osman featured on Democracy Now for feature titled “Afghans Respond to Insult of U.S. Dropping Massive Bomb: ‘Would a Mother Do That to Any Children?’ ”: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/14/afghans_respond_to_insult_of_us

2017, Seelai Karzai writes about Trump administration escalating the war in Afghanistan in an article titled “With Afghanistan Surge, Donald Trump Just Took Ownership of the Forever War”: http://inthesetimes.com/article/20454/afghanistan-troops-trump-obama-war-on-terror-taliban

2016, AAAWA featured in The Express Tribune for a feature titled “Shock and fear: Afghan Americans in New York post-Orlando”: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1123233/shock-fear-afghan-americans-new-york-post-orlando/

2016, AAAWA members Wazhmah Osman and Helena Zeweri participate in Orlando Massacre Town Hall in NYC with South Asian, queer rights organizations, and religious leaders: https://womenforafghanwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PR-06-22-16_WAWOrlando-TownHall.pdf

2015, Laimah Osman featured in Tending Hearts: Laimah Osman in the Studio on Women’s Studio Workshop’s Website: https://wsworkshop.org/2015/07/laimah-osman

2013, Zohra Saed and Leila Nadir write about Afghan American creative expression in the Asian American Literary Review:  https://aalr.binghamton.edu/mixedraceissueafghanamerican/

2011, Helena Zeweri featured on Radio Tahrir with musician Zakarya Sherzad to discuss AAAWA event, “Afghan Americans: Ten Years Later”: https://player.fm/series/1196842/156702519

2011, Zohra Saed covers Gazelle Samizay’s art in Contemporary Practices:
https://www.lawrieshabibi.com/usr/documents/press/download_url/7/contemporary-practices.pdf

2011, One Story Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature is released by the University of Arkansas Press:  https://www.uapress.com/product/one-story-thirty-stories/