Farsiwan

Against The War I began exercising my rights as an American citizen in earnest when I was 12 years old. During lunchtime at school, a few kids in my class placed thumbtacks on my teacher’s chair (an old trick). She was understandably very upset when she sat on them. Not having DNA and fingerprint testing at her disposal, Ms. Hana issued the ultimatum that unless those who had committed the act came forward, she would be forced to punish the whole class. We had until the end of the day to produce

of Farsiwan have however refused to embrace the state narrative, and instead resisted the cultural leveling that seeks to create ethno-linguistic uniformity where none exists. “The time of betrayal of our language and culture is past. We will not allow anyone else to choose a name for our language,” thundered Mujib Rahman Rahimi, a spokesperson for Abdullah, on Facebook after the BBC story began trending on Afghan social media. “My language is Farsi,” he insisted, “not Dari.” Many Farsiwan are