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Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists (The Geopolitics of Information) by Wazhmah Osman is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded med
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wazhmah Osman
- Publisher
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252085451
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, History, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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