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Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'
Price
Free
Free; registration required. Seating is first come, first served.
Where
10 Thornhaugh Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 0XG
About
A launch event for a collection of cross-disciplinary perspectives on colonial knowledge and the 2001 US intervention in Afghanistan.
Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun, Nivi Manchanda and Wazhmah Osman discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production in Afghanistan, chaired by Adam Hanieh. Room R101; no food or drink is permitted.
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