Munazza Ebtikar @mebtikar Twitter profile

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Munazza Ebtikar

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3 years

My family is in Afghanistan alongside millions of other men and women fighting and RESISTING, they don’t want your pity, they need allies and solidarity, fight alongside us and the people of Afghanistan in any way you can!!! We want to live in a sovereign country with dignity!!!

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For all media inquiries, dm me and I will continue suggesting you great Afghan academics, we are a small group but we care about Afghanistan, and we are informed about the history of our country more than most.

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“We are not defending our right for a job or which position we will work in, we are defending the blood of our youth, we are defending our country, our land” for those forcing the Taliban on us #NationalUprisingAgainstTaliban

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My family in Panjshir says that there are thousands of Afghans fleeing Taliban rule from their provinces to Panjshir. Panjshir is considered a safe haven but we need humanitarian assistance!!! People are out in the cold they need food, medication, etc.

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We want our own country, we want to elect our own representatives, we DO NOT want the Taliban, they have not taken power through legitimate means, how dare the world impose them on us!!!! This is not just about women and children this is about ALL afghans we don’t want oppression

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Hundreds of men and women in Kabul are protesting against the Taliban and in support of the National Resistance Front in the streets. #NationalUprisingAgainstTaliban

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Since Panjshir is locked and surrounded by the Taliban and does not border any country, we need to open an air corridor to support Panjshir, international humanitarian organisations need to help NOW!!!!! Where is the UN, Red Cross, etc?

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Some myths to dispel on Panjshir/Resistance 1. The resistance is not the “Northern Alliance”. This term was applied by the west to an alliance created by different commanders in the north-east and north-west of Afghanistan in the 90s. The resistance today is different.

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Please watch this video until the end. The gunman tries to terrorise our women but they continue chanting. Have you ever seen bravery like this? #NationalUprisingAgainstTaliban

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For those who asked what to read on Afghanistan (in English). I’d recommend “Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation” by @RobertCrews22 as a starting point, he is a historian with a focus on Afghanistan from Stanford and fighting on the side of the Afghan people.

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Just spoke with a cousin. They’re killing the families of anyone who is in the resistance in Panjshir. Thus far more than 50 members of families, men, women, and children have been killed. They’re showing brute force to silence the resistance.

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Hazara families walked all the way from Daikundi/Bamiyan by foot to Panjshir for protection and safety from the Taliban, family says that they were in tears, they need our help!!!!

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Humanitarian organisations can send humanitarian assistance to Panjshir via helicopters. Afghanistan’s Air Force did not allow the Taliban to capture their helicopters, they flew to Uzbekistan. They can help in bringing supplies to Afghanistan from there. This is an option.

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Fears from those in Afghanistan who are saying that the Taliban are eagerly waiting for all departure of foreign forces to shut down all internet and “show their true colors” by August 31. This is why they did not harm Independence Day protestors. This is extremely concerning.

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Under Taliban rule journalists have been targeted and forced to flee. Media is heavily censoring. There is an internet shutdown on the resistance in Panjshir. We mostly see Taliban propaganda and journalists with an agenda report from Afghanistan. Our free press is under threat

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Speak to anyone from Afghanistan at any corner of the world, they will not be able to put their devastation into words. No powerful abstraction can articulate the lives and worlds and futures destroyed in the last 42 years of continuous wars.

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To my colleagues and friends from Pakistan. Pressure your government to stop their proxy war in Afghanistan. To stop supporting terror groups in Afghanistan. To stand in solidarity with Afghan civilians, we all want to live this short life with dignity #EndProxyWarInAfghanistan

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I expect Imams and religious scholars in the United States to talk about Afghanistan in their religious sermons this Friday. As Muslim Americans you have a moral responsibility to speak on the suffering of the Afghan people at the hands of imperial and regional powers

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An international list of physical and digital archives and libraries for the study of Afghanistan and its people! We hope that this makes the study of Afghanistan more accessible for students/researchers

Archives and Libraries for the Study of Afghanistan - Hazine

This is a list of both physical and digital holdings currently accessible to students and researchers for the study of Afghanistan. Although the majority of the holdings, especially ones that are...

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Taliban occupying forces coming into Panjshir.

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If humanitarian organisations want to help we can connect you with those responsible for refugees in Panjshir!!!!!

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I’m in my 20s and I don’t remember anything before 9/11. My entire life and the life of every young Afghan has been defined by this War on Terror. America’s 9/11 has been our 9/11 and they wanted to impose this terror on us this 9/11. The world should be ashamed.

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“I can confidently say that what is being reported from inside Afghanistan is only a small fraction of what is actually happening there. Media outlets have no access to evidence of the crimes that the Taliban are committing or they cannot publish”

2 Weeks of Darkness in Afghanistan

I urge the international community to hold the Taliban accountable to their supposed promises of change and make that a condition of their official recognition.

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5 years

The US used similar pictures to provide a moral justification to invade Afghanistan in 2001. Now we see imperial feminism in action in Iran.

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Iran in 1973 Iran in 2019

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Sign the Petition to cancel speaking event at the Oxford Union with former Afghan national security advisor Hamdullah Mohib

Sign the Petition

A Call to the Oxford Union to Cancel Speaking Event with Hamdullah Mohib

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Terror, death, and destruction exacerbated in Afghanistan, especially against our Hazara population. There are no feelings of sadness or desperation, just anger. Their campaign of annihilation can and will be stopped by the people.

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This is what an indigenous uprising looks like. #NationalUprisingAgainstTaliban #SavePanjshir #takeourcountryback

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All media outreach seems to want to just focus on women in Afghanistan, this is MUCH larger than how the Taliban treat women. The women AND men of Afghanistan do not want the Taliban imposed on them, to live a life under oppression, fear, and humiliation!!!!

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Afghans have produced numerous songs lamenting the homeland in the last few decades. To hear them sing these songs as they flee/in exile while their homeland is taken over by invaders is heartbreaking. “My homeland, in incurable pain”

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The @AfghanistanIHRC Chairperson @ShaharzadAkbar hasn’t said a word on Panjshir. Why?

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The earliest Islamic monument in Afghanistan & one of the oldest examples of Islamic architecture is the Nuh Gunbad (nine columns) mosque in Balkh. It was made in 794AD on the remains of a Buddhist monastery, illustrating the transition of one religion to another in material form

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In light of the attacks on educational institutions in Afghanistan an international group of 300 scholars express outrage in this letter of solidarity with students/instructors & asks ALL actors engaged in the war to take concrete measures to protect lives

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3 years

My father in Kabul says that he cries as he walks down the streets in Kabul, seeing starving people in a state of desperation. Afghanistan is undergoing every kind of crisis because the world has accepted a group criminals and killers to govern over 40 million people.

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In the last few weeks we have seen how Afghans, under the heavy atmosphere of censorship, have been using social media to show the world what is taking place in their country. They have placed their lives in danger to document atrocities, war crimes, harassment, destruction, etc.

Haanya Malik

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This is how Taliban round up Panjshiris in #Kabul . This video is from Salang Watt, Kabul, populated mostly by #Panjshiris . We haven't heard about my relatives who have been abducted by the Taliban for weeks now. @BBCYaldaHakim @laralogan @calxandr

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Doing a PhD in a place like oxford as a first-generation young Afghan woman so far from family is a long, difficult, and lonely endeavor. But what helps me is my faith in God which grounds and motivates me, and be the best version of myself. Alhamdulilah, I am so grateful

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Taliban are going house to house, valley to valley in Panjshir looking for VP Amrullah Saleh. According to unconfirmed reports, members of his family/relatives have been arrested/tortured. They’re trying their best to find him. Either with Pakistani insiders/torturing relatives.

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طالبان خانه به خانه و دره به دره در پنجشیر به دنبال امرالله صالح می گردند. بربنیاد گزارش های تایید ناشده تا اکنون چندین عضو خانواده و اقارب او را بازداشت و شکنجه کردند، از هر راه برای پیداکردند محل اختفای او تلاش دارند. گاه با درون های پاکستانی و گاه با شکنجه اقارب و دوستانش

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وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتًا بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ و کسانی را که در راه خدا کشته می‌شوند، مرده مشمار، بلکه آنان زنده‌اند و بدیشان نزد پروردگارشان روزی داده می‌شود (و چگونگی زندگی و نوع خوراک ایشان را خدا می‌داند و بس).

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It has members of our military, government officials, intellectuals, historians etc. It is composed of men and women across ethno-linguistic lines. It is not headed by commanders of the past. But by the current VP of Afghanistan and Ahmad Massoud son of a very important commander

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4. The term “warlord” is based on a colonial understanding of the Afghan “other”. What post-2001 Anglophone work used to refer to commanders of the past and present. For a good article, refer to Nivi Manchanda, “The Imperial Sociology of the ‘Tribe’ in Afghanistan” (2018).

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It's cherry season in Panjshir #Afghanistan

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My other cousin just said that it is indiscriminate, they are killing families of those who have not engaged in the resistance. Information blackout by the Taliban in Panjshir does not allow us to see these war crimes take place. There needs to be an investigation now!!!!

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My friend from Arghanday, a village on the Kabul-Maidan border, says that boys right now are told to join the madrassa instead of going to their local school. And it’s worse for girls who haven’t been able to receive an education.

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Me: "I feel so behind with work because of how much covid has impacted my life🥺" Mom: "Ferdowsi spent his life writing the shahnamah, no one is going to take you seriously in Afghanistan if you say you wrote a dissertation in 3 years"

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The Afghan Scholars Programme at Oxford is open for Afghan academics in any field (no PhD required). Applicants should propose a project of research which can benefit from use of the collections of the Oxford Bodleian Libraries. ⁦ @bodleianlibs

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2. The resistance is in Panjshir because Panjshir has had a strong anti-imperial/anti-Taliban stance dating to the start of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It has also been very successful in not being invaded by any power in the last 40 years of wars.

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I finally made it home to Panjshir, drinking my tea and writing next to the peaceful riverbank, nothing short of paradise on earth. #Afghanistan

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Absolutely mind-numbing, there were almost 50,000 people killed in Afghanistan just this year. Dead bodies in Afghanistan has become so normalized in our psyche that an Afghanistan without death and destruction can't be imagined.

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More people have been killed in Afghanistan in 2018 than Yemen and Syria, according to a recent report

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3. The green/white/black flag is the flag of pre-2001 Afghanistan. This government was the recognized government of Afghanistan in the UN and all countries, except for only three (Saudi, Qatar, UAE) which recognised the Taliban. This flag is really important for the inhabitants

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Making pir qand (a mixture of crushed dried mulberries and walnuts) with family can give you enough energy to hike the mountains in Panjshir, Afghanistan @HamedZara

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Thanking the same politician who represents and pushes for the Taliban in the world stage. @Malala I never understood your activism.

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"The idea that women should not be educated is just not Islamic." Appreciate ⁦ @ImranKhanPTI ⁩ standing up for girls’ education. I hope more world leaders will support Afghan women’s rights and tell the Taliban to let girls return to school.

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Any talk of “neutrality” by academics/researchers of Afghanistan is highly unethical. You are standing in the sideline analysing atrocities take place for research/discussions amongst yourselves in your ivory towers.

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The Taliban spilled the blood of thousands of our innocent every Spring in their annual Spring offensives. They made our Spring a season of violence and destruction. #Nowruz in exile with the hope of celebrating our culture, history, and identity in a liberated Afghanistan.

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Female instructors/principles in Kabul are preparing to host classes for girls in their homes. They’re not waiting for so-called feminists to save them. As they are denied from basic rights, they will continue this resistance until the end of this reign of misogyny and terror.

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We have to beg the world to accept us while they placed us in this position of desperation. They made deals w/ our terrorisers and handed our country to them. This isn’t about “withdrawal” or “ending America’s longest war”. Its about what an imperial power does in other countries

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Tired of taking Persian classes as a student or professional which are Iran-centric/treats the language exclusive to Iran? My friend Ahmad Rashid Salim, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, is offering classes which center Afghanistan and its literary tradition

Aleff Institute

ROOTED IN TRADITION RADICALLY CREATIVE IN ITS APPROACH™

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In this piece I ask, as students of Afghanistan, what has been neglected in the study of the country, why has it been neglected, and how can we create other ways of knowing and being? 'A Critique of Knowledge Production about Afghanistan'

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Urge your institutions to formally issue a solidarity statement with the people of Afghanistan and denouncing/condemning the actions of the international community in Afghanistan NOW! Stop standing in the sideline and watching this crime take place, its a disgrace to humanity

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Munazza Ebtikar

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Blessed with talented Iranian friends like @viraameli who cook you Tahchin to perfection

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@mmodaser Guarding against who? Himself? Millions of Afghans, and thousands of our ANDSF, were subject to only having bread and water (or nothing) because of the terror this group waged.

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because it evokes memories of the past into the present. This flag has been accompanied with the new post-2001 national flag in recent years to show support for our army in the fight against the Taliban/terror groups. Majority of the men in the Afghan army are from these regions

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Heartbreaking to hear our Afghan parents and grandparents across the world with serious PTSD reflect on the ways in which the terrible events unfolding in Afghanistan remind them of the traumas of war and atrocities they’ve experienced in their lives

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