An Iranian Student Travels From The Great War Leaders

The persian war was between the Greeks and The Persians. The war began whenever the persian empire was growing and growing and they just wanted to take over more land and to have more power. Or maybe even the fact that greece kind of attacked first but no less Darius decided to try and take Greece. The persians decided to invade greece but they were ready. the athens and spartans teamed up to defend greece from the persians and fought off the first invasion but the were many more to come.

10. The driver who takes Babi, Laila, and Tariq to the giant stone Buddhas above the Bamiyan Valley describes the crumbling fortress of Shahr-e-Zohak as “the story of our country, one invader after another… we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.” Discuss the metaphorical importance of this passage as it relates to Mariam and Laila. In what ways does their story reflect the larger story of Afghanistan’s troubled history?

The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif Conflict by Najaf Mazari and Robert Tillman is a novel about Najaf's memoir of having to live with conflict and of enduring its in-depth consequences. Melbourne-based fiction writer and biographer Robert Hillman helps Najaf tell his story and also the representation of the author in the novel. Hillman's collaboration with Najaf on The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif continues Zar-e-Sharif his literary preoccupation with the hardships and triumphs of ordinary people caught up in war and political unrest. The background of the book depicts Najaf's homeland that has a long history of violent and bitter armed conflict that spans centuries. This is partly due to the region's geography. As Najaf says, 'just look at the location of Afghanistan on a map of Asia and the Middle East, with neighbors' and near-neighbors' like Russia, Pakistan and Iran' (p.34). The area has enormous geographical and strategic significance. Foreign powers, from the ancient Macedonians through to the colonial British and communist Russians, have striven to secure territory or allies there, with little regard for the desires of the local people. This essay will give us an analysis of The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif's characters Najaf Mazari, and Gorg Aliant plus the plot of the book. The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif traces an Afghani refugee's extraordinary journey from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern

A Thousand Splendid Suns, a book written by Khaled Hosseini, gives us a unique and informative glimpse into life in Afghanistan in the early 1960’s to the 2000’s. In it we can see many different political and social issues ravaging the country, with the most evident being gender inequality. Though many diverse groups of people were being discriminated against at the time, most of the subordination fell onto women as they had more and more rights taken away from them when various ruling powers took control. The author relays this information to us and educates us as to what happened through compelling and thought-provoking literary devices such as symbolic characters and objects, and allusions. By using these

powerful and moving story about two brothers, however it also does an outstanding job at portraying the culture and norms of Afghanistan; both the positive aspects and the negative aspects. Hosseini directly and

The raspy wind rises in swirls, encircling the entirety of my lean body. The parched, coarse sand scrapes across my angular face, burying and scraping itself into the warmth of fresh, open wounds. The sun scorches my skin raw, condemning the violence, the blood, and the screams that seem to echo all throughout the lifeless mountain side. Welcome to Afghanistan. Bitter laughter fills my head.

The modern nation of Afghanistan, as we come to know it today emerged during the eighteenth century. Pashtun tribes in response to the depletion of the Indian and Persian empires within their lands began to band together to form its very own nation, the nation of Afghanistan. “Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for foreign empires for more than two hundred years. The British, Russians the United States have all fought across its inhospitable terrain, in conflicts variously ruthless, misguided, and bloody. This violent history is littered with broken promises and underestimations” (Loyn 1). Many other nations have tried to conquer this rugged region of the world. All of which involved great nations far more superior in weapons and technology than Afghanistan.

We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.’... "Afghanistan for Pashtuns... That's my vision"(Hosseini, 40).

When we witness the success and happiness of others, we rarely stop and think about what they had to do. We usually just notice what is already there, but the truth is, most people had volumes to endure. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, he shows us what everyday life in Afghanistan was like. Through the eyes of Mariam and Laila, Hosseini gives us an experience of what endurance for Afghan women was like. In order to endure with little freedom and stability, Mariam and Laila needed to have patience, sacrifices, and hope.

Rolling emerald hills covered in ballik cedars and black pines, caress the southern border of Turkey. The forested mountains stretch from northern Syria and Iraq to western Iran. Thick vegetation and modest streams seep across the region, nurturing the land. Further south, closer to the charred heart of Iran, the rich foliage and underbrush disappear; the expanse stretches out into a long desert of sand and debris. It is here, among the ruins of a wrecked village, where the women stand, tall and unflinching. Each one cradles a shining rifle. They’d look proud if their thoughts’ weren’t haunted by the pale faces of their martyrs. If it wasn’t for the dried blood caked on their skin and cheeks, they’d look almost normal.

The Afghani film Osama exists as a powerful statement on Islamic culture in south-central Asia, explicitly within the confines of a repressive regime comprised of a non-state actor such as the Taliban. Even though Afghanistan has experienced a long and tumultuous history of conquest and being largely derelict, the tenebrous environs of the nation still harbors a resilient people, as evinced by this film.

People in Afghanistan lived a different life during its monarchy years than right now. Afghanistan at first was conquered by Darius I of Babylonia circa 500 B.C., and by Alexander the Great of Macedonia in 329 B.C. The greatest king of Afghanistan is Mahmoud of Ghazni. He is a 11th-century conqueror who created an empire from Iran to India. In the 13th century, Genghis Khan took over the territory; the area wasn’t united as a single country until the 1700s. In 1870, Islam took root after the area got invaded by different Arab conquerors.The purpose of this paper is to see how Afghanistan was during its monarchy years before the war with Russia and take a look at its rulers and how they affected the country.

Afghanistan is a country which has been suffering since the rise of the Taliban on October 10th of 1994. This group of people have caused a lot of vandalism to the world and mainly to the people of Afghanistan for years, and they still are. Many people create assumptions around things or countries they know nothing of and that has become a big problem because these assumptions might not be true.“For more folks in the west, Afghanistan is often a sound bite on CNN about the Taliban, or the soviet war or maybe the land mines, “he says, “But i don’t think a lot of people have a sense of the culture. Some people don’t know it snows in Kabul. They think it’s all deserts and hot” (Khaled and Cowan). Hosseini’s novels educate and somewhat minimize the stereotypes and

While writing this historical narrative, I had to first find information over Afghanistan before the Soviet war. “The Atlantic” wrote about Afghanistan in the 1960’s. I learned that during this time, Afghanistan was a peaceful country and had large landscapes that weren’t damaged. Many people

Afghanistan is a country that is rich in history and war. Going back to early human civilization, many empires resided in this country. This country’s history is so vast some experts say that the relics and artifacts are just a grand as the artifacts from Egypt. “Lying along important trade routes connecting southern and eastern Asia to Europe and the Middle East, Afghanistan has long been a prize sought by empire builders, and for millennia great armies have attempted to subdue it, leaving traces of their efforts in great monuments now fallen to ruin.” (Dupree, et al., 2016) Afghanistan is landlocked country that boarders seven countries, located in south-central Asia. The nearest body of water is over 300 miles away. “Because of both its isolation and its volatile political history, it remains one of the most poorly surveyed areas of the world.” (Dupree, et al., 2016) With the rugged terrain holds a rugged trail of women’s rights.