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Aug 18, 2021

Dagres quoted in The New York Post on repulsive t-shirt sold after Afghans fall to death fleeing Taliban

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Afghanistan Conflict

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Aug 18, 2021

Riaz in the Daily Star: Three concerns about Taliban 2.0

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Afghanistan Corruption

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Aug 18, 2021

Samad quoted in Leader-Telegram: How Afghanistan’s Ghani went from president to villain in hiding

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Afghanistan Conflict

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Aug 18, 2021

Lakhani joins Egomonk to discuss the gendered funding landscape in Pakistan

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Aug 18, 2021

Samad joins Al Jazeera to discuss if Taliban rule be different this time in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan Conflict

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Aug 18, 2021

Katz joins the Rick Unger Show Daily Podcast to discuss the possibility of future Islamic revolutions

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Civil Society Human Rights

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Aug 18, 2021

Samad quoted in BNN Bloomberg: How Afghanistan’s President Went From Hero to Villain-in-Hiding

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Afghanistan Conflict

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Aug 18, 2021

Lipsky op-ed on the Taliban’s access to IMF SDRs published in Wall Street Journal

By Josh Lipsky

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Afghanistan Economy & Business

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Aug 18, 2021

Samad quoted in Central Maine: How Afghanistan’s Ghani went from president to villain in hiding

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Afghanistan Conflict

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Aug 18, 2021

Wechsler and Lipsky in The Wall Street Journal: “Will the IMF Bankroll the Taliban?”

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"The first real test of whether the Taliban will be accepted by the international community will happen in the IMF boardroom," write Josh Lipsky and William Wechsler in the WSJ.

Afghanistan Crisis Management