I Am Malala banned in Pakistan’s private schools
Zarar Khan reported for the Associated Press this weekend (picked up here by the Boston Globe) that Malala Yousafzai’s memoir, I Am Malala, has been been in private schools across… Read more »
Sushmita Banerjee, Indian writer who defied the Taliban, killed in Afghanistan
Sushmita Banerjee, an Indian writer living in Afghanistan, was killed last week by suspected Taliban militants who took her from her home in Paktika Province, and shot her more than… Read more »
Anthology of Taliban poets said to be “giving voice to terrorists”
A forthcoming anthology of poems endorsed by the Taliban, Poetry of the Taliban, is marked as controversial in an interesting Guardian dispatch by Julian Borger. The book, which is being published… 1 / Read more »