Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Left Radio. On today's episode I have Mina Sharif

and Shalma Yel Shalisi on to talk about Afghanistan. They're lived experiences inside the country.

It's culture, it's political history, the US invasion and withdrawal, etc. I wanted to

do a flyover first approach to this topic before diving deeper. So I threw some big questions

in their direction and unfortunately because of that we couldn't dive down into the nitty-gritty

details of let's say the Soviet Union era in Afghanistan for example or the left wing political

movements that have marked the history of Afghanistan. And so I think in the in the future in the

next few months I would love to have one or both of them back on to dive deeper into those particular

topics. But this is a really I think important and interesting perspective on Afghanistan from

actual women who are you know we're part of the diaspora and then went back and lived in Afghanistan

and have some really unique experiences and insights because of that. So I couldn't have asked for

better guests for this episode and I really hope people enjoy it. I know Americans do not know

nearly as much about Afghanistan as they should and hopefully this is you know one step in

correcting that not just for Americans but for people outside of Afghanistan all over the world.

So I love this episode, love the guests, I'm sure you will too. And as always if you like what we do

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bonus content. Without further ado here is my interview with Mina and Shamayah on Afghanistan

from the perspective of Afghans and Jordan. My name is Mina Sharif. I was a product of the Afghan war

in the 80s. My parents immigrated to Canada and that's where I grew up. In 2005 I returned to

Afghanistan and stayed for about 15 years and this was where I rediscovered who I was with the

immigrant experience meant to me and now after the fall of Afghanistan I have to face what it means

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