Good, bad and ugly: the Taliban and Afghanistan
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Their return to rule is unequivocally bad for the country’s women and girls. But wholesale collapse has not come and some aspects of government have improved; it turns out threats of grotesque violence change behaviours. We investigate the curious case of Morocco’s absent king—and his unlikely mixed-martial-artist pals. And how the mobile phone has shaped cinema for half a century.
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| 1:32.9 | Where is Morocco's king? |
| 1:35.5 | From last year's statistics, the odds are he's abroad, somewhere. |
| 1:40.2 | Ever since he fell in with some social media savvy mixed martial artists, |
| 1:49.0 | he hasn't shown the kind of leadership that Moroccans are increasingly clamoring for. And from the moment science fiction authors dreamed them up, portable communication devices became plot devices. |
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