Countering fragmentation is a conversation series curated by AVAH Collective that seeks to bring together what was once scattered.
In this session led by Bismellah Alizada and Parwana Haydar we invite people from Afghanistan and the diaspora for a conversation on why we look at the past. Why is it important (if at all)? What are the stories we seek to find, whose stories are represented, and who has told them? In what ways may this shape the way we understand ourselves and our present? The history of Afghanistan, like any other society, has more than one truth and a complex array of actors. To many, the dominant interpretation, with strong colonial hues, fails to make perfect sense as does the perspectives of the ruling class to those driven into the peripheries.
Refreshments will be provided.
