PLEASE
NOTE: Community
Language and Culture Bank officially
changed its name to Center
for Intercultural Organizing
in August, 2005 to better reflect our mission, work and values.
PRESS RELEASE
Community Language and Culture Bank
Media Contact: Kayse Jama
kayse@interculturalorganizing.org
http://www.interculturalorganizing.org
More Information: (503) 287-4117
The U.S. & Afghanistan: A Fateful
Partnership?
Presentation and Discussion with Dr. Zaher Wahab
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2003
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq captured the media spotlight,
there has been little and superficial reporting on the American
occupation of Afghanistan. But all is not well in the “cockpit”
of Central Asia. There is little security, stability or peace
in the country. Neotaliban are waging a full-scale insurgency
against the Americans and the Kabul government they installed.
A fragment of international assistance has been delivered
and reconstruction is crippled by the resistance. The narcomafia
controls half of the GDP producing 75% of the world’s heroin,
and most of the country is controlled by warlords, gangsters
and/or criminals. There are massive human rights violations
on a daily basis. Several countries continue to intervene
in Afghan affairs. There are continued ethnic and factional
clashes. Most people lead medieval lives. Washington knows
(and is complicit in) all this, yet it follows a $1 billion
per month military operation chasing “terrorists.” What is
to be done to avoid a costly permanent occupation or the disintegration
of the ravaged country? Is there a hidden Washington agenda?
Dr. Zaher Wahab, an Afghan-American and a Stanford Ph.D.,
is education professor at the Lewis & Clark College Graduate
School. He returned recently from Afghanistan, where he served
as senior advisor at the Ministry of Higher Education for
a year. Professor Wahab has been a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt,
Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan and knows the geopolitics of Central
Asia well.
Where: Portland State University Multicultural Center
Smith Memorial Center, 2nd Floor (SW Broadway & Montgomery)
When: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Free and Open to the Public
Co-Sponsored by:
PSU Multicultural Center
