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Events
CURRENT EVENTS
Roundtable Discussion with the Helmand Pronvincial Council
Location: Chatham house, 10 St Jame's Square, London
Date: 6 June 2008
Time: 3pm-5pm
SPEAKERS:
Haji Mohammed Anwar KHAN, Chairman
Qurban Alil ORUZGANI, Deputy Chairman
Ms Razia BALUCH, Member
Saleema SHARIFI, Member
CHAIR: DR GARETH PRICE, Head, Asia Programme, Chatham House
The Helmand Provincial Council is a democratically elected body made up of 15 members intended to provide a mechanism whereby the people of Helmand Province can articulate their concerns to the government. It is independent of the Governor of Helmand Province, and is key to building good governance capacity. The meeting will provide a valuable opportunity to hear about the current situation in Helmand and future direction of the council.
To register please reply to asia@chathamhouse.org.uk with the following details: Name and Affliation.
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Media Talk: 'Assassination and Insurgency- Are the Taliban Winning?'
Wed 11th June, 7.30pm Price: £7.00
Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Moderated by Nazanine Moshiri (Al Jazeera)
With Alastair Leithead (BBC), James Fergusson (journalist and author) and John D McHugh (photojournalist)
The British death toll in Afghanistan has now reached 96 as the cost of the war spirals ever higher. Suicide attacks are on the rise and President Karzai narrowly escaped a recent suicide attempt as the security situation continues to deteriorate. As the insurgency appears to be spreading from the south to the central and northern regions we ask if the Taliban are gaining the upper hand?
Alastair Leithead is the BBC's Kabul Correspondent.
James Fergusson is a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent who has written for many publications. From 1997 he reported from Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, covering its fall to the Taliban. In 1998 he became the first western journalist in more than two years to interview the fugitive warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. He has just published A Million Bullets - The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan which analyses the slide into war in Helmand and asks: Could Britain perhaps have avoided the violence altogether?
John D McHugh is a photo journalist who spent many months last year embedded with US Forces in Afghanistan and was shot and wounded while there. He returned in April 2008 to continue covering the conflict through photos, films and blogs.
Nazanine Moshiri has been a presenter and the London Correspondent at Al Jazeera English since November 2006. She has travelled extensively for the network and has covered some of their biggest stories from Europe, Iran and Afghanistan. During a brief stint in Afghanistan, Nazanine travelled to Balkh province where she reported on cannabis replacing opium and also Herat where she focused on Iran's increasing influence on the region.
For more info visit http://frontlineclub/club_events.php?event=2261
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The Afghanistan Study Group is very pleased to announce that Jonathan Steele, The Guardian's Senior Foreign Correspondent, will speak on "Reflections on Afghanistan: Memories and Experiences Since 1981"
Date/Time: 6.30-8pm on June 11th.
Location: King's College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS (further venue details to follow later this week)
Jonathan Steele, as many of you know, has engaged with Afghanistan since 1981 including 12 separate journeys and he recently published Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq (2008). Jonathan is also author of numerous other books on international affairs, including South Africa, Germany, and the Soviet Union/Russia, including The Limits of Soviet Power (1983) and Eternal Russia (1994).
This promises to be a fascinating evening with Jonathan. We hope you can join us for the ASG's last formal event before the summer break (to begin again in September 2008).
For further details, please visit www.asguk.org
We look forward to seeing you there! No RSVP required. This event is free and open to all. |
HELMAND: The Soliders' Story
A unique exhibition is now open at the National Army Museum. This exhibition has been built by, written by and contributed to by soliders of the 16 Air Assault Brigade, to tell the story of their experiences fighting in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand Province in 2006. Entry is free. The Museum is open daily from 10.00 - 17.30. http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/ |
PAST EVENTS
JULY 2007: In its 25th year WOMAD provided a new and wonderful venue to host an array of arts and music just north of Bristol at Charlton Park. This year our stall focused on our Afghanaid Kitchen Garden Projects to highlight our agricultural and nutritional programmes. To read more about Afghanaid's participation at WOMAD click on the link here. To hear music and view photos from WOMAD 2007 click on www.womad.org
| December 2006 |
"Afghan Bazaar": Come support Afghanaid projects and the Marafet school by purchasing designer label clothes, cashmere shawls, bejewelled stones and much more. The Bazaar takes place Friday December 15 at 10:30 am-2:30pm in Stow-in-the-Wold's St. Edward's Hall. |
| December 2006 |
"World Fair": This great fair trade event is held at the "Connaught Halls" (Red Lion Square in London) where there is a plethora of exciting global goods. Afghanaid has a stall selling books, CDs, DVDs and Afghan jewellery and textiles. Many of our items are made by Afghan women refugees.
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| November 2006 |
- "Musical evening with John Baily". John is a well respected ethnomusicologist and musician. He is a talented player of traditional afghan instruments.
- "Afghanistan: a companion and guide. A lecture by Bijan Omrani and Matthew Leeming". A fascinating talk by the authors of this excellent travel book. |
| October 2006 |
"Lecture followed by Afghanaid late night viewing of Jameel Gallery" (in The Victoria & Albert Museum).
A three-year-long renovation and re-design of the V&A's Islamic Gallery has created this outstanding new home for the collection.
We are fortunate to have a private viewing arranged for the exclusive benefit of our supporters. -date tbc- |
| September 2006 |
"Stray Dogs" Cont.
"Harvest Festival" |
| August 2006 |
"Stray Dogs" A Meshkini film about two young bycicle thieves and their newly acquired "stray dog". This film provides an interesting insight into current life in Afghanistan. It is being shown in two different cinemas in London: Renoir (Brunswick Square) and Curzon (Soho) |
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