Sola Mahfouz is a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University Quantum Information Group. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her life in Afghanistan under the Taliban and her daring escape to the U.S. for a more fulfilling life.
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The dream the Taliban couldn’t kill
Sola Mahfouz is a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University Quantum Information Group. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her life in Afghanistan under the Taliban and her daring escape to the U.S. for a more fulfilling life.
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The systems that failed to help a refugee family
ProPublica reporter Kartikay Mehrotra tells the story of a 14-year-old Afghan boy who took his own life and the federal resettlement program ill-equipped to help Afghan refugees.
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Why the Taliban sees girls’ education as a threat
Onaba Payab is a former advisor to the first lady of Afghanistan. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the U.S. and the international community can support women’s rights and education in Afghanistan today.
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What Happens To Afghan Women Now?
Meighan Stone, an adjunct senior fellow in the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us to talk about the humanitarian fallout of the rapid collapse of the nation and how the U.S. might help aid the women and girls left behind.
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Why We Should Bring Back The Draft
Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine, and he joins us to discuss why, he says, we’re writing blank checks for protracted conflicts with an all-volunteer military.
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A Case For Staying In Afghanistan
Farhat Popal and Chris Walsh of the George W. Bush Institute join us to make the case that the U.S. should remain in Afghanistan in order to preserve fledgling democratic rights.
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A Marine Revisits The Battlefield
Veteran and writer Elliot Ackerman joins us to talk about the people he met upon returning to the Middle East after previous military tours.
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Wildlife, The Environment And The Casualties Of War
Evolutionary biologist Alex Dehgan dedicated his career to protecting Afghanistan’s unique environment and wildlife population from human destruction and joins us to talk about the effect war has on an area’s natural landscape.
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The Wars We Couldn’t Win
C.J. Chivers joins us to tell the stories of war in Afghanistan and Iraq through the eyes of the U.S. military members fighting them.
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Covering Conflict: A Conversation With Novelist Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman joins us to talk about tapping into his firsthand knowledge of conflicts in the Middle East for his novels.
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Special Assignments For Women Soldiers
During the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army created cultural support teams staffed with women. The idea was that in the patriarchal country, these soldiers might build relationships with local women that their male counterparts could not.
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